Jung Chang was born in Yibin‚ Sichuan Province‚ China‚ in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant‚ a ′barefoot doctor′‚ a steelworker‚ and an electrician before becoming an English language student and‚ later‚ an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University‚ where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 − the first person from the People′s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British University. Jung Chang lives in London and teaches the School of Oriental... Read the full biography of Jung Chang
Jung Chang′s Wild Swans is the story of three extraordinary women‚ and the story of China over the last hundred years. It reveals the secrets of one family‚ from the sale of Chang′s grandmother to an ageing warlord in 1924‚ to that of her daughter‚ Xia De−hong (′wild swan′)‚ who became a Communist during the Kuomintang government of Chiang Kai−Shek and on to Jung Chang′s own experiences as a Red Guard and a peasant ‘bare−foot‘ doctor‚ before she...