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Jung Chang

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in Sichuan, China

March 25, 1952

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Jung Chang (simplified Chinese: 张戎; traditional Chinese: 張戎; pinyin: Zhāng Róng; Wade-Giles: Chang Jung, born March 25, 1952 in Yibin, Sichuan) is a Chinese-born British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in mainland China.

See also ユンチアン, 張戎. ...more

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Average rating: 4.17 · 128,914 ratings · 8,823 reviews · 12 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China 4.26 avg rating — 104,603 ratings — published 1991 — 189 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 3.78 avg rating — 12,488 ratings — published 2002 — 73 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 3.84 avg rating — 9,218 ratings — published 2013 — 65 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 3.86 avg rating — 2,555 ratings — published 2019 — 38 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 3.44 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 1986	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
	Thiên Nga Hoang Dã 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1991	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
	Chinese Collection Library Pack by Jung Chang, Adeline Yen Mah it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 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 Jung Chang, Rudy Kousbroek, Michael Dyson really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 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
	Três irmãs: As mulheres que definiram a China moderna by Jung Chang, Odorico Leal (Translator) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	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 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 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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What should be our February 'Read Around the World' Group Read? (Asia)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (India)

10 votes 14.9%

Last Train to Istanbul by Ayşe Kulin (Turkey)

10 votes 14.9%

The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon (Japan)

7 votes 10.4%

A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi (Afghanistan)

6 votes 9.0%

Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien (China)

6 votes 9.0%

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See (China)

5 votes 7.5%

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (China)

4 votes 6.0%

Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon (Thailand [Siam])

4 votes 6.0%

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (China)

3 votes 4.5%

As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh-Century Japan by Lady Sarashina (Japan)

3 votes 4.5%

I'll Be Right There by Kyung-Sook Shin (South Korea)

3 votes 4.5%

House of Cards by Sudha Murty (India)

2 votes 3.0%

Sunlight on a Broken Column by Attia Hosain (India)

2 votes 3.0%

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip (Vietnam)

1 vote 1.5%

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo (India)

1 vote 1.5%

Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai (India)

0 votes 0.0%

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