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Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords’ regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents. Jung Chang has shown, in books such as Wild Swans, her instinct for a compelling story, and that instinct stands her in good stead here as she weaves her way through the complex history of China Well worth reading (Rana Mitter Sunday Times) Chang is too deft a biographer to tell you how to think. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao’s revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang’s grandmother was a warlord’s concubine. Sus pies permanecieron vendados desde nina, y a los quince anos de edad se convirtio en concubina de uno de los numerosos senores de la guerra.In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. La abuela de la autora nacio en 1909, epoca en la que China era aun una sociedad feudal. A lo largo de esta saga, tan veridica como espeluznante, tres mujeres luchan por sobrevivir en una China sometida a guerras, invasiones y revoluciones. You can read this before Cisnes salvajes PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Cisnes salvajes written by Jung Chang which was published in January 1, 1991. Brief Summary of Book: Cisnes salvajes by Jung Chang