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Jung Chang

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A New York Times Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. …

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Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong written by the husband and wife team of writer Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, and depicts Mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. In conducting their research for the book over …

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Vilde Svaner: Tre Døtre af Kina er en selvbiografisk familiehistorie skrevet af den kinesiske forfatter, Jung Chang første gang udgivet i 1992. Bogen fortæller historien om forfatterens bedstemor, mor og hende selv og gennem disse historier giver bogen et unikt indblik i Kinas historie i det 20. århundrede. Bogen er …