| Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Contributor(s): Chang, Jung (Author) |
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ISBN: 0743246985 ISBN-13: 9780743246989 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2003 Annotation: Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Women - History | Asia - China |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003276604 |
| Physical Information: 1.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (1.60 lbs) 544 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - Chinese - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Asian - Ethnic Orientation - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 ne |
Contributor Bio(s): Chang, Jung: - Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of York in 1982, the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, with whom she wrote Mao: The Unknown Story. |