false <![CDATA[Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1158959961m/1848.jpg 1848 49 In <i>Wild Swans</i> Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents. 2969000 1991 Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China total:6049|5:2660|4:2281|3:901|2:159|1:48| 6049 25493 8611 1245 5 7 false false Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 1993 Fri Jul 25 06:14:39 -0700 2008 Fri Jul 25 06:24:55 -0700 2008 Wild Swans may well be the most depressing book I've ever read. Don't let that keep you from giving it a try, though, for by some strange mechanism, it also ranks among the most uplifting books I've read, chronicling as it does a courage, resilience and will to survive which are nothing short of riv...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 15:52:15 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 19 16:23:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993 Sat Nov 24 15:57:12 -0800 2007 Tue May 20 16:22:26 -0700 2008
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My favorite quote from the book is on page 14:
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Wild Swans follows the journey of three generations of women, ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 05 08:21:10 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 05 08:34:04 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Oct 08 17:10:16 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 08 17:15:42 -0700 2007 It is never dull.

Jung Chang, who was one of the lucky few permitted to leave Communist China and earn a doctorate in the West, tells the amazing story of three gene...more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Oct 23 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 29 18:02:42 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 05:22:50 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 1 false false Wed Jun 04 09:52:05 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 20 02:52:01 -0700 2009
On a personal note : I live with a person who re...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Oct 12 16:32:04 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 05 17:38:58 -0800 2007 This book is eye-opening & shocking, really. I'm glad that I read it, because I learned SO much from it about history. It...more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 10:06:53 -0700 2008 Tue May 13 10:06:53 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 10:13:48 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 06 10:38:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 19 14:05:24 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 18 09:48:37 -0700 2008
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