Wild Swans

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The story of three generations in twentieth century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history a bestselling classic in thirty languages with than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.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, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members 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 Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a barefoot doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving and ultimately uplifting detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history. New Read Books Wild Swans Author Jung Chang – kino-fada.fr Wild Swans may well be the most depressing book I ve ever read Don t let that keep you from giving it a try, though, for by some strange mechanism, it also ranks among the most uplifting books I ve read, chronicling as it does a courage, resilience and will to survive which are nothing short of riveting I could sum the book up by saying it s the greatest ode to courage and resilience ever written, or that it s one of those rare books which make you despair of humanity and then go a long way to Wild Swans may well be the most depressing book I ve ever read Don t let that keep you from giving it a try, though, for by some strange mechanism, it also ranks among the most uplifting books I ve read, chronicling as it does a courage, resilience and will to survive which are nothing short of riveting I could sum the boo.... 600 600527 1984 ,, 1984 ,, 1 2 3 4 5 At first I did not want to voice my opinion of this book since it cut so near to the bone and was such a profound shock to read in 1993 It was, however, the first book, after reading Isabelle Allende, that kept me awake for several weeks afterwards No other book ever managed to achieve that.It certainly is a depressing book, no beating around the bush about that, but also such a courageous introduction to a life of people shut away behind the veil of communism My overall impression of the boo At first I did not want to voice my opinion of this book since it cut so near to the bone and was such a profound shock to read in 1993 It was, however, the first book, after reading Isabelle Allende, that kept me awake for several weeks afterwards No other book ever managed to achieve that.It certainly is a depressing book, no beating around the bush about that, but also such a courageous introduction to a life of people shut away behind the veil of communism My overall impression of the book was that it must have been equa... 2013 2013R education La R volution Culturelle 1984 Cisnes salvajes es el relato de la juventud de la autora, la historia de su madre y de su abuela, mujeres incre blemente valientes que tuvieron que pasar por el infierno de nacer en la China del siglo XX.Creo que es uno de esos libros con los que es imposible no enfurecerse o llorar de rabia y tristeza por la crueldad e idiotez del ser humano Por suerte el libro tambi n est lleno de personas maravillosas.No dejo de darle vueltas al hecho de que a n hoy la Historia de China y la dictadura de Cisnes salvajes es el relato de la juventud de la autora, la historia de su madre y de su abuela, mujeres incre blemente valientes que tuvieron que pasar por el infierno de nacer en la China del siglo XX.Creo que es uno de esos libros con los que ...How far could Chinese patriarchy go in the early twentieth century to make the lives of women sheer humiliation and misery Here in Wild Swans we have that question tidily answered This is a tale of the lives of three generations of Chinese women the author, her mother and her grandmother Author Jung Chang s grandmother had her feet bound a hideously painful process undertaken solely so that some man might one day find her lustworthy enough to take as a concubine The years long process of fo How far could Chinese patriarchy go in the early twentieth century to make the lives of women sheer humiliation and misery Here in Wild Swans we have that question tidily answered This is a tale of the lives of three generations of Chinese women the author, her mother and her grandmother Author Jung Chang s grandmother had her feet bound a hideously painful process undertaken solely so that some man might one day find her lustworthy enough to take as a concubi...3 3 1979,, , ,, , ,, , , , ,, ,,, ,, , ,, ,, , ,,, , , , , ,, , ,, ,, ,

Wild Swans
  • English
  • 07 October 2017
  • Paperback
  • 562 pages
  • 0743246985
  • Jung Chang
  • Wild Swans