Jung Chang

In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early …

Mao: The Unknown Story adalah sebuah biografi 2005 dari pemimpin Komunis Tiongkok Mao Zedong yang ditulis oleh tim suami istri penulis Jung Chang dan sejarawan Jon Halliday, dan menyatakan bahwa Mao lebih bertanggung jawab pada beberapa kematian pada masa damai ketimbang Adolf Hitler atau Joseph Stalin. Dalam …

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. …