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Wild Swans is a true story of three generations of Chinese women and that alone is enough for me to urge you to read this book. Jung Chang tells the tale of her grandmother, who was a concubine in old China, and the tale of her mother, a wholehearted Chinese Communist who worked for Mao, and her own tale, the tale of a child in Mao’s China and a young woman who made her way to a new life in freedom.
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Absolutely loved this book! Amazing characters, read like an epic novel. A great peek inside the history of 20th century China.
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