THE LONGAWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTIMILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATIONJung Changs Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother three daughters of China. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmothers birth and footbinding when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedongs rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jungs parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the reforms. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West.Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jungs life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing especially so because all her books were (and are) banned.Fly, Wild Swans is the followup to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jungs family along with that of China up to date. The book is in many ways Jungs love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jungs subsequent life. It has shaped...

Binding: Hardback;384 pages; Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers - UK Wholesale Acct; Classification: BGHA; Weight: 700 g; Dimensions: 161 x 242 x 33

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