Jung Chang

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing 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 extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ 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 gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Three Daughters of China

Wild Swans

A portrait of the nineteenth-century empress covers the coup that made her regent after her father's death, her defiance of centuries of traditions and formalities, and her role in introducing Western political ideas and technologies.

The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Empress Dowager Cixi

Jon Halliday

A portrait of the late Chinese leader refutes a wide variety of myths about Mao and provides facts about the Long March, his relationship with Stalin, and the impact of his thirst for power on the Chinese people.

The Unknown Story

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020* Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans. They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled seismic transformations these three women left an indelible mark on history. Red Sister rose to be Mao's vice-chair. Little Sister became first lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China. Big Sister made herself one of country's richest women. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister takes us on a sweeping journey from exiles' quarters in Japan and Berlin to secret meeting rooms in Moscow, and from the compounds of the Communist elite in Beijing to the corridors of power in democratic Taiwan. By turns intimate and epic, Jung Chang reveals the lives of three extraordinary women who helped shape twentieth-century China.

Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

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.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Paul Syrier

drie dochters van China

Wilde zwanen

Yaban Kuğuları

A Chinese woman chronicles the struggle of her grandmother, her mother, and herself to survive in a China torn apart by wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval, from 1907 to the present.

tre figlie della Cina

Cigni selvatici

Cisnes salvajes desarrolla sobre todo las vidas de la abuela (concubina de uno de los señores de la guerra), la madre (destacada revolucionaria comunista), y los años de estudiante de la autora hasta su traslado a occidente. A través de las peripecias vitales de estos personajes, Chang, con un estilo autentico, objetivo y estremecedor sin caer en el melodrama ni el revanchismo, hace un repaso a los grandes hechos y tragedias que ha vivido china en el último siglo. El ejemplo moral de la familia de la autora, muy unida a pesar de las contrariedades -su padre es uno de los personajes más llamativos de todo el libro por su integridad y fidelidad a unos ideales hasta el fin, a pesar de las agónicas dificultades por las que pasara, hace que la novela tenga un mensaje positivo y esperanzador. Además, la autora permite que sean esas experiencias personales -sin disquisiciones teóricas ni lamentos- las que reflejen con exactitud la sufrida historia colectiva de todo un pueblo. Por encima de los sufrimientos padecidos, la mayoría inhumanos, Jung Chang deja constancia de la fortaleza e integridad de gran parte del pueblo chino: rodeada de sufrimiento, muerte y desolación, había contemplado la indescriptible capacidad humana para sobrevivir y buscar la felicidad.

tres hijas de China

Cisnes salvajes

Dos costumes ancestrais às violentas reviravoltas do comunismo, a China passou, em algumas décadas, por uma das mais radicais e amplas transformações já vistas na história da humanidade. Mergulhando nas memórias familiares de três gerações de mulheres, Cisnes selvagens é o relato verdadeiro, com todos os acentos do drama épico, de uma família que tenta preservar a própria humanidade em meio à vertigem e ao horror da trajetória da China no século XX.

Três filhas da China

Cisnes selvagens

O regresso da autora de Cisnes Selvagens e da biografia da Imperatriz Viúva Cixi, com uma nova e arrebatadora narrativa sobre três mulheres no coração da China do século XX. Uma grande história de poder, amor, conquista e traição. Um dos maiores contos de fadas modernos chineses é o das três irmãs de Xangai que, durante quase todo o século XX, estiveram no centro do poder na China. Dizia-se que uma "adorava o dinheiro", outra "adorava o poder" e a terceira "adorava o seu país", mas há muito mais para além destas caricaturas. Enquanto a China passava por um século de guerras, revoluções e transformações sísmicas, cada uma delas desempenhou um papel importante ou mesmo crítico, deixando uma marca indelével na História. A Irmã Vermelha, Ching-ling, casou-se com Sun Yat-sen, pai fundador da República Chinesa. A Irmã Mais Nova, May-ling, era a senhora Chiang Kai-shek, primeira-dama da China nacionalista pré-comunista e uma figura política por direito próprio. A Irmã Mais Velha, Ei-ling, era a conselheira principal não oficial de Chiang; tornou-se uma das mulheres mais ricas da China e fez do seu marido primeiro-ministro de Chiang. As três irmãs gozaram de enorme privilégio e glória, mas também sofreram constantes ataques e perigos mortais. Mostraram grande coragem, viveram o amor apaixonado, mas também o desespero e a perda. A relação entre elas tinha uma carga emocional fortíssima. Uma história de amor, guerra, exílio, intriga, glamour e traição, que nos transporta numa imensa viagem de Cantão ao Havai e a Nova Iorque; dos aquartelamentos de exílio no Japão e em Berlim às salas de encontros secretos em Moscovo; dos complexos da elite comunista em Pequim aos corredores do poder do Taiwan democrático.

AS TRÊS MULHERES QUE MARCARAM A CHINA DO SÉCULO XX

As Irmãs Soong - A Mais Velha, A Mais Nova E A

trzy córki Chin

Dzikie łabędzie

Het leven van drie generaties vrouwen in China in de periode 1909-1978.

THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation - the story of 'three daughters of China': Jung, her mother and her grandmother and their lives during a century of revolution. Fly, Wild Swans is, quite simply, what happened next. Jung Chang arrived in the UK in 1978 aged 26, part of a Chinese scholarship programme for study abroad. Finding herself in the London of punk, political protests and Ziggy Stardust, she felt as if she'd landed on the moon. She and her fellow students had all grown up in complete isolation from the west, living in fear as to what might happen if they broke any of the strict rules imposed upon them by their government. It was an invaluable opportunity but came at a cost of long-term separation from her mother and family in China. As Jung began to adjust to life in the West, she warmed to the fashion scene, rebelled and thrived. Her studies took off and she became the first person from the People's Republic of China to be awarded a doctorate from a British university. Fly, Wild Swans is, in many ways, Jung's love letter to her mother set against China's development from the relative freedoms of the late-1970s and untrammelled capitalism of the 1990s to the current authoritarian repressive rule of Xi-Jinping. With vivid flashbacks to her family's experience in communist China, the book offers an extraordinary account of Jung's research into the genocidal regime of Mao Tse-Tung, the many fictions she uncovered and the political consequences of publishing her subsequent biography. As Jung becomes a successful academic and writer in the West, Fly, Wild Swans demonstrates how much she relies on her mother still living in China and the painful years in which politics has prevented them meeting. Through the arc of their respective lives, she gives an immersive, deeply moving and unforgettable account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best.

Jung Chang

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