Jung Chang
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Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in the People's Republic of China.
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I had always wanted to be a writer as a child but couldn’t spell out this dream to myself because during the Cultural Revolution all writers were condemned.
On how writing was perceived during her childhood and adolescence in “Jung Chang: ‘To be a writer was the most dangerous profession’” in
Wild Swans shows how life was different for each of the women - my grandmother, my mother, me.
On her book Wild Swans in “Jung Chang: ‘To be a writer was the most dangerous profession’” in The Guardian (2019 Oct 13)
The thing is, the regime makes it very hard for people to be interested. If you are dedicated to finding out the truth, you can. There are ways to climb the firewall.
On the middle class in China’s seeming apathy in “Jung Chang interview: why I'm still banned in China” in The Telegraph (2013 Sep 22)
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Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in the People's Republic of China. Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, and touching on parts of her personal memoir, was published in June 2005. Reception of the work by academics is mixed, though the work has received acclaim in the popular press.
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