Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, First Edition 1991

Offered for sale is a hardback first edition of Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang Published in 1991 by Harper Collins it is a family history that spans a century, recounting the lives of three female generations in China, by Chinese writer Jung Chang. It contains the biographies of her grandmother and her mother, then finally her own autobiography. 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.