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Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China

Wild Swans( )
Author: Chang, Jung
Series title:Perennial Non-fiction Promotion Ser.
ISBN:978-0-00-724167-5
Publication Date:May 2007
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $16.99
Book Description:

One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, 'Wild Swans' is an epic true story of how one family lived and survived through some of China's most unsettling and violent times. The publication of 'Wild Swans' in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and...
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Author Biography
Chang, Jung (Author)
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of York in 1982. She is the first person from the People¿s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, with whom she wrote Mao: The Unknown Story. Her non-fiction book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, was a New York Times bestseller in 2014.

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