Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British University. Jung Chang lives in London and teaches the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.
Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991. With her husband, Jon Halliday, she is also the author of Mao: The Unknown Story (2005, nonfiction).
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Biography, History, China, biography, China, history, 20th century, Heads of state, Politics and government, Women, china, China, politics and government, New York Times reviewed, Chiang, may-ling soong, 1897-2003, China, politics and government, 1949-, China, social conditions, Empresses, Mothers and daughters, Soong, ai-ling, 1890-1973, Women, Women, biography, Administrative and political divisions, Agricultural machinery, Agriculture, Américains d'origine irlandaise, Anecdotes, Animal industry, Autobiography, Belletristische DarstellungPeople
Cixi Empress dowager of China (1835-1908), Jung Chang (1952-), Ch'ing-ling Sung, Chou En-lai, De-hong Xia (1931-), Deng Xiaoping, Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Qingling Song (1893-1981), Rong Zhang (1952-), Yu-fang Yang (1909-1969), Zedong Mao (1893-1976)Time
20th century, 1861-1912, 1949-, 1949- ..., 1949-1976, 1949-1976 Mao's Cultural Revolution, 19th century, Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, Geschichte 1909-1978ID Numbers
- OLID: OL662333A
- Amazon ID: B00N3U50ZO
- BookBrainz: 43c1be7d-1bc1-4d39-97e7-e13ef122f4db
- GoodReads: 1237
- ISNI: 0000000120207031
- IMDb: nm1943326
- Library of Congress Names: n86112793
- LibraryThing: changjung
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): VIAV096167
- Storygraph: 1bd67538-e0cd-4c59-bbf9-387634a5fc68
- VIAF: 9906407
- Wikidata: Q235291
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q235291
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Alternative names
- Chang, Jung
- 张戎
- 張戎
- Zhāng Róng
- Chang Jung
- Rong Zhang
- jung chang
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