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A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years. The publication of Wild Swans in 1991 was a worldwide phemen. Not only did it become the best-selling n-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award.Few books have ever had such an impact on their readers. Through the story of three generations of women - grandmother, mother and daughter - Wild Swans tells thing less than the whole tumultuous history of China's tragic twentieth century, from sword-bearing warlords to Chairman Mao, from the Manchu Empire to the Cultural Revolution. At times terrifying, at times astonishing, always deeply moving, Wild Swans is a book in a million, a true story with all the passion and grandeur of a great vel.

Product Identifiers

PublisherHarpercollins Publishers

ISBN-10000714539x

ISBN-139780007145393

eBay Product ID (ePID)95193488

Product Key Features

TopicBiography: Historical, Political & Military

LanguageEnglish

GenreBiography: Historical, Political & Military

Run Time540

AuthorJung Chang

FormatCD

Dimensions

Height127mm

Width142mm

Weight220g

Additional Product Features

Country/Region of ManufactureLondon, United Kingdom

Date of Publication04/12/2002

Contained Items Statement6 Audio Cds

Spine24mm

Out-Of-Print Date18/01/2014

Author BiographyJung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was briefly a Red Guard at the age of fourteen, and then a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker and an electrician. She came to Britain in 1978, and in 1982 became the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London.

ImprintHarpercollins Publishers Ltd

Edition StatementAbridged Edition