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OVER 13M COPIES SOLD â?? THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON â?? NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LIST

OVER 13M COPIES SOLD – THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING PHENOMENON – NUMBER 8 ON SUNDAY TIMES BEST OF THE BESTSELLER LIST Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family – the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself – Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China's twentieth century. Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.

THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION Jung Chang’s Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother – ‘three daughters of China’. The book opens with her grandmother’s birth – and foot binding – in 1909, when China was under the last emperor, through Mao Zedong’s rule and the Cultural Revolution during which Jung’s parents were subject to unbelievable ordeals. It finishes in 1978 when the Mao era officially ended, and Deng Xiaoping started the post-Mao ‘Reforms’. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power, the challenger to the United States’ dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung’s life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences in those years were rich and complex – especially so because all her books were (and are) banned. Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung’s family – along with that of China – up to date. The book is in many ways Jung’s love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution, but they are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung’s subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what’s more, it promises to herald the future. China is now at another watershed moment: Chairman Xi Jinping is seeking to turn the country back towards the old Maoist days and build a Communist state with capitalist features. This new Xi era is greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Through the arc of their respective lives, she gives an immersive, deeply moving and unforgettable account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best.

THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATIONJung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens with her grandmother's birth - and foot binding - in 1909, when China was under the last emperor, through Mao Zedong's rule and the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subject to unbelievable ordeals. It finishes in 1978 when the Mao era officially ended, and Deng Xiaoping started the post-Mao 'Reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West.Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences in those years were rich and complex - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned.Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution, but they are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future.China is now at another watershed moment: Chairman Xi Jinping is seeking to turn the country back towards the old Maoist days and build a Communist state with capitalist features. This new Xi era is greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Through the arc of their respective lives, she gives an immersive, deeply moving and unforgettable account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best.

The long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, the multi-million copy, international bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of women in one family.Jung Chang's epic family memoir, Wild Swans, defined a generation, chronicling the experiences of Jung, her mother, and her grandmother--"three daughters of China"--as China transformed from empire to Communist nation. Fly, Wild Swans continues the story of Jung's family--and China--from the late 1970s until today. During that time, China rises from a decrepit and isolated state to world power challenging American dominance as Jung makes a new life in the West--one of the first Chinese to leave her homeland at the end of the Cultural Revolution. As Jung becomes a writer, her life remains intimately entwined with her native land, a relationship made more complex because her books are banned.A love letter to her mother, and a tribute to her grandmother and father, victims of the Cultural Revolution, Fly, Wild Swans reveals that for Jung, the past is never far away. It has shaped her, just as it has molded modern China and continues to influence its future.Today, China is again at another watershed moment: Chairman Xi Jinping seeks to return the country to the Maoist days, building a Communist state with capitalist features. This new Xi era is greatly affecting both Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans brings their story into the present, offering an immersive, deeply moving, and unforgettable account of life in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best.

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age.

This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world's population, and as a unique stateswoman. "Powerful". (Simon Sebag Montefiore). "Truly authoritative". (New York Times). "Wonderful". (Sunday Times). It is shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize.

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history--a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving--and ultimately uplifting--detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history;

Ville svaner (1991) var en bok som definerte en generasjon – historien om «tre døtre av Kina»: Jung, hennes mor og bestemor, og deres liv gjennom et århundre med revolusjon. Fly, Wild Swans forteller ganske enkelt hva som skjedde videre. Fly, ville svaner er et kjærlighetsbrev til moren, satt mot Kinas utvikling – fra 1970-tallets relative frihet, gjennom 1990-tallets kapitalisme, til dagens autoritære styre under Xi Jinping. Med tilbakeblikk på familiens erfaringer i Kommunist-Kina, gir boken også en sterk skildring av Jungs forskning på Mao Tse-Tungs regime, løgnene hun avdekket, og konsekvensene av å publisere biografien hans. Jung Chang kom til Storbritannia i 1978, 26 år gammel, gjennom et kinesisk stipendprogram. London var preget av punk, protester og Ziggy Stardust – en verden totalt annerledes enn den hun kom fra. Hun hadde vokst opp i isolasjon fra Vesten, med streng statskontroll og frykt for å bryte reglene. Hun møtte friheten, men adskillelsen fra familien i Kina var tung. Etter hvert som Jung tilpasset seg Vesten, ble hun fascinert av motescenen, og hun ble den første fra Folkerepublikken Kina som tok en doktorgrad ved et britisk universitet. Som suksessrik akademiker i Vesten viser Jung hvor sterkt hun fortsatt er knyttet til moren i Kina – og hvor vanskelig det har vært når den politiske situasjonen i landet har hindret dem i å møtes. Gjennom deres liv forteller hun gripende om det kommunistisk diktaturet hun vokser opp i og truslene Kina i dag utgjør for verdensordenen. Dette er familiehistorie på sitt beste.

Beretningen om enkekejserinde Cixi, der regerede i Kina i mere end 50 år, er et stykke ukendt kinahistorie og et fascinerende portræt af en af verdenshistoriens mest magtfulde kvinder. Jung Chang, der blev verdensberømt på at fortælle sin mormors, sin mors og sin egen historie i bogen De vilde svaner, retter spottet mod endnu en dramatisk kvindeskæbne og giver samtidig et unikt indblik i Kinas historie i perioden op til kejserdømmets opløsning i 1908. Cixi blev født i 1835 som en ganske almindelig landbypige. Som tolvårig blev hun udvalgt som konkurbine hos kejser Xianfeng og fødte hans eneste mandlige arving. Da kejserens døde i 1861, arvede Cixis femårige søn, Tongzhi, tronen, og Cixi regerede på sønnens vegne. Da Tongzhi døde nogle få år senere, adopterede Cixi en nevø og fik ham indsat som ny kejser. Hermed kunne hun kunne fortsætte sit styre helt indtil til sin død i 1908. Fra sin position på én af verdens mest magtfulde troner konfronterede Cixi den kinesiske kultur med vestlige politiske ideer og teknologi og fik bl.a. etableret jernbane, industri, elektricitet og telegrafi. Hun regerede i en urolig periode af Kinas historie med både hjemlige opstande og udenlandske invasioner. Siddende bag det silkeforhæng, der skulle adskille hende fra embedsværkets mænd, lykkedes det Cixi at overvinde århundreders gamle traditioner og formaliteter og bane vejen for en modernisering af Kina. I Enkekejserinden fortæller Jung Chang om Cixis skånselsløse kamp mod rivaler, om hendes umættelige iver efter at lære, om tilliden til de vestilige rådgivere og ønsket om at bevare det ophøjede ved Kinas forhistorie. Jung Chang har haft adgang til hidtil utilgængeligt kildemateriale, og bogen bygger på historiske dokumenter fra det kejserlige arkiv i form af korrespondancer, dagbøger og øjenvidneberetninger. Pressen skriver: »En fantastisk fortælling.« ****** - Jyllands Posten »Det er en imponerende kvindeskikkelse, en vanvittigt spændende historie og ikke mindst en fantastisk roman.« ****** - Femina »Bogen leverer en enestående og detaljeret indsigt i en del af Kinas historie, som kun er kendt af få i vor del af verden.« **** - Politiken »Jung Chang har ikke bare blik for at iscenesætte, så man ser de ultrasmukke omgivelser for sig, hun har også været nede at grave i hidtil ukendte arkiver, og det er imponerende, hvad hun har fundet af dagbøger, lister, breve og fotos fra samtiden; du føler, at du hele tiden er en flue på væggen.« **** - Elle »En smuk og tragisk skæbnefortælling og et gribende indblik i en del af Kinas historie.« - Søndag

Jung Changs nyeste bidrag til det moderne Kinas historie fortælles gennem tre søstre fra Shanghai, der befandt sig i magtens centrum. De satte hver sit uudslettelige præg på det 20. århundredes kinesiske historie. Røde Søster giftede sig med ’Kinas Fader’, Sun Yat-sen, og endte med at blive Maos næstformand. Lillesøster giftede sig med Chiang Kai-shek, blev det prækommunistiske Kinas førstedame og en markant politisk profil. Storesøster blev Chiangs uofficielle hovedrådgiver, og hendes forretningstalent gjorde hende til en af Kinas rigeste kvinder.

VILDE SVANER fortæller Kinas historie gennem tre generationer: forfatterens, hendes mors og hendes bedstemors. Da Jung Changs bedstemor blev født i 1909, var Kina et feudalsamfund. Den lille piges fødder blev brækket og snøret, fordi liljefødder blev anset for at være smukt, og faderen solgte for en god pris den 15-årige som konkubine til en 52-årig general. Jung Changs mor voksede op under japansk og dernæst russisk overherredømme og gik siden aktivt ind i den kommunistiske undergrundsbevægelse, hvor hun forelskede sig i et ungt idealistisk partimedlem. Jung Chang er født i 1952 i Sichuan-provinsen og voksede op som medlem af den privilegerede kommunistiske elite. Hun bor nu i London. ”En grusom, men meget smuk fortælling.” - Information

Det sades att en älskade pengar, en älskade makt och en älskade sitt land. Men historien om systrarna Soong är så mycket mer än dessa schabloner. När Kina kämpade sig igenom hundra år av krig och revolutioner spelade de, var och en, en viktig roll. Relationerna mellan systrarna var mycket ansträngd, inte minst för att en av dem gjorde allt för att förstöra för de andra.De osannolika systrarna Soong är en gripande berättelse om kärlek, krig, intriger och förräderi. Den tar oss med på en storslagen resa från Kanton i Kina till Hawaii och New York, från Japan till hemliga mötesrum i Moskva och maktens korridorer i det demokratiska Taiwan. Jung Chang skildrar med varsam hand dessa tre extraordinära kvinnor, som var med och formade 1900-talets Kina.Jung Chang har tidigare skrivit Vilda svanar: tre döttrar av Kina, Mao: den sanna historien och Den sista kejsarinnan av Kina. Hennes böcker har översatts till över 40 språk och sålt i över 15 miljoner exemplar utanför Folkrepubliken Kina, där hennes böcker är förbjudna.

Kiinan historia ja nykyisyys kietoutuvat yhteen koskettavassa sukutarinassa. Villijoutsenet-teoksen jatko-osa sukeltaa kirjoittajan perheen historiaan ja Kiinan muutoksiin aina nykypäivään ja tulevaisuuteen asti. Jättiläisvaltion mullistukset ja perheen tragediat yhdistyvät henkilökohtaisella ja liikuttavalla tavalla. Kirja tuo esiin Jungin perheen kohtalon Kiinan kulttuurivallankumouksen aikana. Se vaikuttaa yhä hänen nykyiseen elämäänsä Britanniassa. Teos on kirjoittajan rakkaudenosoitus hänen äidilleen ja samalla syvällinen katsaus Kiinan historiaan. Kirjoittajan teos Villijoutsenet on myynyt maailmanlaajuisesti 15 miljoonaa kappaletta. Kiinassa hänen teoksensa ovat kiellettyjä.

Kolme kiinalaista naista: isoäiti, äiti ja tytär Näiden kolmen naisen elämänkohtalot laajenevat kuvaukseksi elämästä viime vuosisadan Kiinassa - keisarien ajalta Tiananmenin aukion tapahtumiin. Jung Chang kuvaa kirjassa muun muassa Kiinan kulttuurivallankumouksen järkyttäviä tapahtumia, jotka hän koki itse omakohtaisesti. Valtaisaksi menestykseksi noussut, palkittu elämäkerta tuo silmiemme eteen todellisuuden, jota historiankirjat eivät koskaan tavoita.

En klassiker i verdenslitteraturen: en familiesaga, et historisk skjebnedrama, et unikt stykke kvinnehistorie og et avslørende dokument om vår nære fortid. Ville svaner er en gripende saga om en families liv og skjebne, men samtidig så mye mer. Gjennom sin egen, sin mors og sin mormors historie speiler den kinesisk-engelske forfatteren Jung Chang (f. 1952) alle de dramatiske omveltningene Kina har opplevd i vårt århundre. Ville svaner er oversatt til 25 språk og har til sammen solgt i over syv millioner eksemplarer.