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Jung Chang

Born

in Yibin, Sichuan, China

March 25, 1952

Website

http://www.jungchang.net/

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Jung Chang (Chinese: 張戎) is a Chinese-British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but 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, was published in June 2005. ...more

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Average rating: 4.22 · 152,101 ratings · 11,190 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.30 avg rating — 123,008 ratings — published 1991 — 33 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday 3.83 avg rating — 13,816 ratings — published 2002 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China 3.91 avg rating — 10,674 ratings — published 2013 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China 3.90 avg rating — 4,260 ratings — published 2019 — 46 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China 3.94 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 2025 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday 3.51 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	毛澤東：鮮為人知的故事【上冊・亞馬遜獨家】 by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wild Swans & Watching The Tree by Jung Chang, Adeline Yen Mah 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Phycomycete Flora of Soil and Litter in Hong Kong liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fliegt, Wilde Schwäne: China, meine Mutter und ich by Jung Chang, N.N. (Narrator), Heide Lutosch - Übersetzer 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Jung Chang (?)

“When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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“If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

tags: love

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“...go in the direction your head is pointed in.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

tags: decision-making

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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

11 votes, 33.3%

Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear

8 votes, 24.2%

Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama

7 votes, 21.2%

Open: An Autobiography by Andre Agassi

4 votes, 12.1%

Making It Up by Penelope Lively

3 votes, 9.1%

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