An edition of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
(1989)
Wild swans
three daughters of China
1st Anchor Books ed.
by Jung Chang
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"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.
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Wild swans: three daughters of China
1992, Anchor Books, Anchor
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Table of Contents
Author's note
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Chronology
Three-inch golden lilies : concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933)
Even plain cold water is sweet : my grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938)
They all say what a happy place Manchukuo is : life under the Japanese (1938-1945)
Slaves who have no country of your own : ruled by different masters (1945-1947)
Daughter for sale for 10 kilos of rice : in battle for a new China (1947-1948)
Talking about love : a revolutionary marriage (1948-1949)
Going through the five mountain passes : my mother's long march (1949-1950)
Returning home robed in embroidered silk : to family and bandits (1949-1951)
When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven : living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953)
Suffering will make you a better communist : my mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956)
After the anti-Rightist campaign no one opens their mouth : China silenced (1956-1958)
Capable women can make a meal without food : famine (1958-1962)
Thousand-gold little precious : in a privileged cocoon (1958-1965)
Father is close, mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao : the cult of Mao (1964-1965)
Destroy first, and construction will look after itself : the Cultural Revolution begins (1965-1966)
Soar to heaven, and pierce the earth : Mao's Red Guards (June-August 1966)
Do you want our children to become "Blacks"? : my parents' dilemma (August-October 1966)
More than gigantic wonderful news : pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966)
Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence : my parents tormented (December 1966-1967)
I will not sell my soul : my father arrested (1967-1968)
Giving charcoal in snow : my siblings and my friends (1967-1968)
Thought reform through labor : to the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969)
The more books you read, the more stupid you become : I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971)
Please accept my apologies that come a lifetime too late : my parents in camps (1969-1972)
The fragrance of sweet wind : a new life with The Electricians' Manual and Six Crises (1972-1973)
Sniffing after foreigners' farts and calling them sweet : learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974)
If this is paradise, what then is hell? : The death of my father (1974-1976)
Fighting to take wing (1976-1978)
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"Anchor Worldviews books"--Half t.p.
Previously published: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Includes index.
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