Hillary Clinton called it "an inspiring tale of women who survived every deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact." Martin Amis said it made him feel like a five-year-old, adding, it "has the breadth of the most enduring social history." It was translated into 37 languages and sold more than 13 million copies. And here was an account of three generations of Chinese women: Chang’s grandmother, a warlord’s concubine her mother, a revolutionary and Chang herself, a former Red Guard who eventually moved to England. The average reader was relatively ignorant about China but keenly interested. This big green book was published just two years after the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Her family memoir Wild Swans was the book of the ’90s, which is to say, everybody read it. But all of her three books are banned in China. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving - and ultimately uplifting - detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.Īll of our books are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.Jung Chang is the most well-known Chinese writer in the world. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician.
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history - a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.Īn engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Published by Flamingo / Harper Collins, 1993.
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