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Jung Chang


Born
in Yibin, Sichuan, China
March 25, 1952

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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.
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Average rating: 4.22 · 161,596 ratings · 12,291 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors
Wild Swans: Three Daughters...

4.31 avg rating — 129,387 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions
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Mao: The Unknown Story

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3.84 avg rating — 14,220 ratings — published 2002
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Empress Dowager Cixi: The C...

3.92 avg rating — 11,042 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Big Sister, Little Sister, ...

3.91 avg rating — 4,599 ratings — published 2019 — 47 editions
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Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother,...

3.87 avg rating — 2,556 ratings — published 2025
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Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong C...

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毛澤東:鮮為人知的故事【上冊・亞馬遜獨家】

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Wild Swans & Watching the Tree

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Jung Chang Collection 2 Boo...

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“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

“If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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“As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!”
― Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Polls

June 2018 New School Poll

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster, 1908, 119 pages
 
  154 votes, 47.4%

Light in August by William Faulkner, 1932, 507 pages
 
  60 votes, 18.5%

 
  40 votes, 12.3%

The Wreath by Sigrid Undset, 1920, 305 pages
 
  37 votes, 11.4%

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, 1977, 692 pages
 
  34 votes, 10.5%

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