Jung Chang achieved global fame after her first book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991. In it, she wrote about the upheavals of twentieth century China through the stories of three women — her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine whose feet were bound; her mother, who became a fervent Communist Party member before suffering greatly during the Cultural Revolution; and herself, growing up through the last years of Mao Zedong’s rule. In her new book, Fly, Wild Swans, she brings the family’s
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