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Jung Chang

Born

in Yibin, Sichuan, China

March 25, 1952

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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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Jung Chang’s books

Average rating: 4.2 · 141,800 ratings · 10,114 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.29 avg rating — 115,183 ratings — published 1991 — 224 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 3.82 avg rating — 13,093 ratings — published 2002 — 88 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 3.90 avg rating — 9,960 ratings — published 2013 — 79 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 3.89 avg rating — 3,735 ratings — published 2019 — 44 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 by Alexandra Wood (Adapted by), Jung Chang (Source Material) 4.12 avg rating — 85 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
	Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling by Jung Chang, Jon Halliday 3.43 avg rating — 37 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, 喬・哈利戴(Jon Halliday) 4.30 avg rating — 10 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 4.43 avg rating — 7 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
	Gevecht om de geschiedenis by Keulemans (Editor), Rudy Kousbroek, Michael Dyson 3.25 avg rating — 4 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

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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

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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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Polls

What would you like to read for February's Group Read? Our theme is Civil Rights.

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

24 votes 22.2%

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

18 votes 16.7%

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

17 votes 15.7%

Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

14 votes 13.0%

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

11 votes 10.2%

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

9 votes 8.3%

Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

7 votes 6.5%

While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

7 votes 6.5%

Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides

1 vote 0.9%

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

0 votes 0.0%

108 total votes

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