An edition of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
(1991)
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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Mujeres en China, Biography, History, Women, Social conditions, Autobiography, New York Times reviewed, Family, Twins, Fiction, Irish Americans, Américains d'origine irlandaise, Biographies, Families, Accessible book, Protected DAISY, In library, Mothers and daughters, Chang, Jung, -- 1952-, Mothers and daughters -- China -- Biography., Women -- China -- Biography., China -- History -- 20th century., China -- Social conditions -- 20th century., Mao's Cultural Revolution, Red Guard, Reading Level-Grade 7, Reading Level-Grade 9, Reading Level-Grade 8, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 10, Reading Level-Grade 12, China, biography, Women, biography, China, social conditions, China, history, 20th century, Women, china, nyt:hardcover-political-books=2014-08-10, New York Times bestseller, Frau, Nonkonformismus, Belletristische Darstellung, Famille, Politique et gouvernement, Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) fast (OCoLC)fst01352662People
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Table of Contents
Author's note
Family tree
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)
Epilogue
Edition Notes
"Anchor Worldviews books"--Half t.p.
Previously published: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Includes index.
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