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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by Jung Chang
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Jung Chang tells the story of twentieth-century China through the lives of her grandmother, her mother, and herself. Beginning with her grandmother’s constrained circumstances and moving through her parents’ involvement in the Communist revolution, the narrative follows a family whose hopes and loyalties are repeatedly tested by political change. Chang’s own childhood and youth bring the Cultural Revolution into close, personal focus. Family history, remembered experience, and national upheaval are woven into a substantial narrative that makes room for affection, conviction, fear, and disillusionment. The scope is sweeping, but its attention remains on how public events enter ordinary homes.
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