Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China (SIGNED)
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Few books have shaken the Western world's understanding of China as profoundly as Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China — an extraordinary multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of three women across a century of seismic upheaval. Jung Chang traces the fates of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine navigating feudal China; her mother, a passionate Communist idealist caught in the brutal machinery of Mao's revolution; and herself, a young woman who came of age during the catastrophic Cultural Revolution, ultimately escaping to tell this remarkable story. Set against a backdrop of war, famine, and ideological terror, the narrative uncovers the immense personal cost of China's turbulent transformation from imperial dynasty to communist superstate. Chang's prose is both intimate and epic in scope, weaving personal testimony with historical fact to produce a work of devastating emotional power. Wild Swans stands as one of the most widely read non-fiction accounts of 20th-century China, banned on the mainland yet translated into dozens of languages and embraced by millions worldwide. The author's unflinching honesty — bearing witness to suffering, resilience, and the enduring bonds between women — gives the book a universality that transcends politics and geography. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly means to survive history rather than simply live through it, this is an essential, haunting, and ultimately triumphant testament.
Author: Jung Chang
Format: Hardback
Published: 2003, HarperCollins Publishers
Genre: Biography
Edition: 2nd ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Very good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Signed
Few books have shaken the Western world's understanding of China as profoundly as Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China — an extraordinary multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of three women across a century of seismic upheaval. Jung Chang traces the fates of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine navigating feudal China; her mother, a passionate Communist idealist caught in the brutal machinery of Mao's revolution; and herself, a young woman who came of age during the catastrophic Cultural Revolution, ultimately escaping to tell this remarkable story. Set against a backdrop of war, famine, and ideological terror, the narrative uncovers the immense personal cost of China's turbulent transformation from imperial dynasty to communist superstate. Chang's prose is both intimate and epic in scope, weaving personal testimony with historical fact to produce a work of devastating emotional power. Wild Swans stands as one of the most widely read non-fiction accounts of 20th-century China, banned on the mainland yet translated into dozens of languages and embraced by millions worldwide. The author's unflinching honesty — bearing witness to suffering, resilience, and the enduring bonds between women — gives the book a universality that transcends politics and geography. For anyone who has ever wondered what it truly means to survive history rather than simply live through it, this is an essential, haunting, and ultimately triumphant testament.