- Jung Chang

Collins Modern Classics - Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (Collins Modern Classics)

By Jung Chang
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OVER 13M COPIES SOLD – THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON – NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LIST

Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.

Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China’s twentieth century.

Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.

Author: Jung Chang
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 13 May 2021
Pages: 704
ISBN: 978-0-00-848514-6
Price: £12.99, £12.99 (Export Price) , €None
Jung Chang was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952.During the Cultural Revolution she worked as a peasant, a ‘barefoot doctor’, a steelworker and an electrician. She came to Britain in 1978, and in 1982 became the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London. In addition to Wild Swans, Jung Chang has written three critically acclaimed biographies: Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday); Empress Dowage Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, 2013); and Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China (2019).

'An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact' -

Hillary Clinton, O, The Oprah Magazine -

'A mesmerizing memoir' -

TIME Magazine -

‘It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this book' -

Mary Wesley -

‘Everything about “Wild Swans” is extraordinary. It arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness' -

Minette Marrin, Sunday Telegraph -

‘Immensely moving and unsettling; an unforgettable portrait of the brain-death of a nation' -

J. G. Ballard, Sunday Times -

‘“Wild Swans” made me feel like a five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social history' -

Martin Amis, Independent on Sunday -

‘There has never been a book like this' -

Edward Behr, Los Angeles Times -