I am daunted by the prospect of commenting on this book. Jung Chang tells the story of her grandmother who was a concubine to a warlord general before marrying a compassionate and principled Manchu doctor, and was one of the last generation to suffer the disabling practice of foot-binding.She tells ...
Wild Swans is the story of the author's family, the "three daughters" of the subtitle representing three generations. The first, Chang's grandmother, Yu-fang, was born in 1909 into a traditional Imperial China on the brink of great changes. Two years after her birth the centuries old Manchu dynasty ...
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang is a memoir telling the story of three generations in twentieth-century China.Read my full and more in depth review at my blog, V for Vilde.Wild Swans offers an insider's perspective of the big changes in China from ca. 1900-1980. Especially as I'm ...
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Wild Swans is a true story of three generations of Chinese women and that alone is enough for me to urge you to read this book. Jung Chang tells the tale of her grandmother, who was a concubine in old China, and the tale of her mother, a wholehearted Chinese Communist who worked for Mao, and her own...
Ma grand-mère avait eu les pieds bandés à l'âge de deux ans. Sa mère, qui avait jadis subit le même sort qu'elle, commença par les lui envelopper dans une pièce de tissu blanc de six mètres de long, en prenant bien soin de replier tous les orteils, mis à part le pouce, sous la plante. Après quoi, el...
This book is very well written and interesting. It is about three generation of woman in one Chinese family with history background. I can recommend this book enough. A must read.
The first impression this book made on me was, can this family never get a break? If not being beaten by occupying Japanese or robbed by Kuomintang gangsters, they’re trying to navigate the shifting politics of the Communist administration the author’s parents were officials in -- there were sometim...
Wonderful first-hand account of life in China from the times of Japanese rule to Kuomintang and then to the Communist-era of Mao Zedong and his queer policies and ending with liberal term of Deng Xiaoping. It is a well-written memoir and kept my interest going till the end. It though drags a bit at ...
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