FLY, WILD SWANS: MY MOTHER, MYSELF AND CHINA

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 in 1909 with her grandmother s birth and foot binding when China was under the last emperor moving through Mao Zedong s rule especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung s parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 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 global 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 dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing 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