{"product_id":"fly-wild-swans-my-mother-myself-and-china","title":"Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"242\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"137\" data-end=\"240\"\u003eTHE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO \u003cem data-start=\"166\" data-end=\"178\"\u003eWILD SWANS\u003c\/em\u003e, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"354\"\u003e\u003cem data-start=\"244\" data-end=\"273\"\u003e\"A must-read … magnificent\"\u003c\/em\u003e – \u003cem data-start=\"276\" data-end=\"293\"\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/em\u003e *****\u003cbr data-start=\"299\" data-end=\"302\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"326\"\u003e\"Beautiful and moving\"\u003c\/em\u003e – Elif Shafak, \u003cem data-start=\"342\" data-end=\"352\"\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"356\" data-end=\"1050\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"356\" data-end=\"385\"\u003eJung Chang’s \u003cem data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"383\"\u003eWild Swans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was a book that defined a generation, an \u003cstrong data-start=\"427\" data-end=\"452\"\u003eepic personal history\u003c\/strong\u003e of Jung, her \u003cstrong data-start=\"466\" data-end=\"476\"\u003emother\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong data-start=\"482\" data-end=\"497\"\u003egrandmother\u003c\/strong\u003e – ‘three daughters of China’. The book opens in \u003cstrong data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"554\"\u003e1909\u003c\/strong\u003e with her grandmother’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"578\" data-end=\"606\"\u003ebirth – and foot-binding\u003c\/strong\u003e – when China was under the \u003cstrong data-start=\"634\" data-end=\"650\"\u003elast emperor\u003c\/strong\u003e, moving through \u003cstrong data-start=\"667\" data-end=\"688\"\u003eMao Zedong’s rule\u003c\/strong\u003e, especially the \u003cstrong data-start=\"705\" data-end=\"728\"\u003eCultural Revolution\u003c\/strong\u003e, during which Jung’s parents were subjected to \u003cstrong data-start=\"776\" data-end=\"798\"\u003ehorrendous ordeals\u003c\/strong\u003e because of their courage. It finishes in \u003cstrong data-start=\"840\" data-end=\"848\"\u003e1978\u003c\/strong\u003e, when \u003cstrong data-start=\"855\" data-end=\"872\"\u003eDeng Xiaoping\u003c\/strong\u003e officially ended the \u003cstrong data-start=\"894\" data-end=\"905\"\u003eMao era\u003c\/strong\u003e and started the \u003cstrong data-start=\"922\" data-end=\"933\"\u003ereforms\u003c\/strong\u003e. Jung, at that \u003cstrong data-start=\"949\" data-end=\"972\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003epropitious juncture\u003c\/strong\u003e, became one of the \u003cstrong data-start=\"992\" data-end=\"1034\"\u003efirst Chinese to leave Communist China\u003c\/strong\u003e for the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1052\" data-end=\"1480\"\u003eNearly \u003cstrong data-start=\"1059\" data-end=\"1080\"\u003ehalf a century on\u003c\/strong\u003e, China has risen from a \u003cstrong data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1136\"\u003edecrepit and isolated state\u003c\/strong\u003e to a \u003cstrong data-start=\"1142\" data-end=\"1158\"\u003eglobal power\u003c\/strong\u003e, the challenger to the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1182\" data-end=\"1218\"\u003eUnited States’ dominant position\u003c\/strong\u003e in the world. Through those decades, Jung’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"1263\" data-end=\"1271\"\u003elife\u003c\/strong\u003e has been intimately entwined with her \u003cstrong data-start=\"1310\" data-end=\"1325\"\u003enative land\u003c\/strong\u003e. Her experiences dealing with the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1360\" data-end=\"1370\"\u003eregime\u003c\/strong\u003e in those years were \u003cstrong data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1413\"\u003erich and revealing\u003c\/strong\u003e – especially so because all her books were (and are) \u003cstrong data-start=\"1467\" data-end=\"1477\"\u003ebanned\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"2008\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"1482\" data-end=\"1501\"\u003eFly, Wild Swans\u003c\/strong\u003e is the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1509\" data-end=\"1522\"\u003efollow-up\u003c\/strong\u003e to \u003cem data-start=\"1526\" data-end=\"1538\"\u003eWild Swans\u003c\/em\u003e and brings the story of \u003cstrong data-start=\"1563\" data-end=\"1580\"\u003eJung’s family\u003c\/strong\u003e – along with that of \u003cstrong data-start=\"1602\" data-end=\"1611\"\u003eChina\u003c\/strong\u003e – up to date. The book is in many ways Jung’s \u003cstrong data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"1687\"\u003elove letter to her mother\u003c\/strong\u003e. It is inevitably also about her \u003cstrong data-start=\"1721\" data-end=\"1747\"\u003egrandmother and father\u003c\/strong\u003e, both of whom died tragically in the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1785\" data-end=\"1808\"\u003eCultural Revolution\u003c\/strong\u003e, but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the \u003cstrong data-start=\"1860\" data-end=\"1886\"\u003epast is never far away\u003c\/strong\u003e in Jung’s subsequent life. 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