Jung Chang describes the life of 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. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is 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. Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold.
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