Fly, Wild Swans My Mother, Myself and China
eAudio - 2026
The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family."AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN MY GRANDMOTHER became the concubine of a warlord general . . ." So begins Jung Chang's epic family memoir, Wild Swans, which defines a generation. The book ends in 1978, when Deng Xiaoping opened the door of Communist China, and Jung—twenty-six years old and unstoppably curious, despite years of brainwashing— seized the propitious moment and became one of the first Chinese to leave the tightly sealed country and come to the West. Fly, Wild Swans chronicles her journey and that of h...er family, along with that of China, as it rose from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power challenging American dominance.During those decades, although she lives in the West, Jung's life intertwines with her...
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HarperCollins
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| File Size | 298 GB |
| ISBN | 9780063480070 |
| Release Date | 1/13/2026 |