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Chang, Jung, 1952-
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China -- Biography.
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Wild swans : three d...
Wild swans : three daughters of China / Jung Chang.
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Chang, Jung, 1952-
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Chang, Jung, 1952-
China -- Biography.
Publisher Info:
New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991.
Description:
524 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
ISBN:
0671685465 :
9780671685461
Contents:
"Three-inch golden lilies"-concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933) -- "Even plain cold water is sweet"-my grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938) -- "They all say what a happy place Manchukuo is"-life under the Japanese (1938-1945) -- "Slaves who have no country of your own"-ruled by different masters (1945-1947) -- "Daughter for sale for 10 kilos of rice"-in battle for a new China (1947-1948) -- "Talking about love"-a revolutionary marriage (1948-1949) -- "Going through the five mountain passes"-my mother's long march (1949-1950) -- "Returning home robed in embroidered silk"-to family and bandits (1949-1951) -- "When a man gets power, even his chicken and dogs rise to heaven"-living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953) -- "Suffering will make you a better Communist"-my mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956) -- "After the anti-rightist campaign no one opens their mouth"-China silenced (1956-1958) -- "Capable women can make a meal without food"-famine (1958-1962) -- "Thousand-gold little precious"-in a privileged cocoon (1958-1965) -- "Father is close, mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao"-the cult of Mao (1964-1965) -- "Destroy first, and construction will look after itself"-the cultural revolution begins (1965-1966) -- "Soar to heaven, and pierce the Earth"-Mao's red guards (June-August 1966) -- "Do you want our children to become blacks?"-my parents' dilemma (August-October 1966) -- "More than gigantic wonderful news"-pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966) -- "Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence"-my parents tormented (December 1966-1967) -- "I will not sell my soul"-my father arrested (1967-1968) -- "Giving charcoal in snow"-my siblings and my friends (1967-1968) -- "Thought reform through labor"-to the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969) -- "The more books you read, the more stupid you become"-I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971) -- "Please accept my apologies that come a lifetime too late"-my parents in camps (1969-1972) -- "The fragrance of sweet wind"-a new life with the electricians' manual and six crises (1972-1973) -- "Sniffing after foreigners farts and calling them sweet"-learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974) -- "If this is paradise, what then is hell?"-the death of my father (1974-1976) -- Fighting to take wing (1976-1978).
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Tells the story of three women--Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother--whose lives and fortunes mirror the tumultuous twentieth century in China.
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