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Chang, Jung
ISBN: 9780743246989
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Touchstone Books
Edition: Touchstone
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Wild Swans is the story of three generations in twentieth-century China, and is a record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love. Jung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine…
Wild Swans is the story of three generations in twentieth-century China, and is a record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love. Jung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parent's experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
| ISBN | 0743246985 | | DEWEY | B | | ISBN13 | 9780743246989
(What's this?) | | Pages | 544 | | Publisher | Touchstone Books | | Volumes | 1 | | Imprint | TOUCHSTONE PRESS | | Weight (grammes) | 527 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 01 Aug 2003 | | Width (mm) | 140 | | Library of Congress | 2003276604 | |
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| 1 | | "Three-Inch Golden Lilies": Concubine to a Warlord General (1909-1933) | | 21 | | 2 | | "Even Plain Cold Water Is Sweet": My Grandmother Marries a Manchu Doctor (1933-1938) | | 43 | | 3 | | "They All Say What a Happy Place Manchukuo Is": Life under the Japanese (1938-1945) | | 62 | | 4 | | "Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own": Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947) | | 75 | | 5 | | "Daughter for Sale for 10 Kilos of Rice": In Battle for a New China (1947-1948) | | 94 | | 6 | | "Talking about Love": A Revolutionary Marriage (1948-1949) | | 115 | | 7 | | "Going through the Five Mountain Passes": My Mother's Long March (1949-1950) | | 140 | | 8 | | "Returning Home Robed in Embroidered Silk": To Family and Bandits (1949-1951) | | 151 | | 9 | | "When a Man Gets Power, Even His Chickens and Dogs Rise to Heaven": Living with an Incorruptible Man (1951-1953) | | 170 | | 10 | | "Suffering Will Make You a Better Communist": My Mother Falls under Suspicion (1953-1956) | | 191 | | 11 | | "After the Anti-Rightist Campaign No One Opens Their Mouth": China Silenced (1956-1958) | | 204 | | 12 | | "Capable Women Can Make a Meal without Food": Famine (1958-1962) | | 220 | | 13 | | "Thousand-Gold Little Precious": In a Privileged Cocoon (1958-1965) | | 240 | | 14 | | "Father Is Close, Mother Is Close, but Neither Is as Close as Chairman Mao": The Cult of Mao (1964-1965) | | 256 | | 15 | | "Destroy First, and Construction Will Look After Itself": The Cultural Revolution Begins (1965-1966) | | 273 | | 16 | | "Soar to Heaven, and Pierce the Earth": Mao's Red guards (June-August 1966) | | 297 | | 17 | | "Do You Want Our Children to Become 'Blacks'?": My Parents' Dilemma (August-October 1966) | | 282 | | 18 | | "More Than Gigantic Wonderful News": Pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966) | | 308 | | 19 | | "Where There Is a Will to Condemn, There Is Evidence": My Parents Tormented (December 1966-1967) | | 323 | | | More... | | |
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