Jung Chang

Cigni selvatici. Tre figlie della Cina è un romanzo autobiografico della scrittrice cinese Jung Chang. Il romanzo racconta la vera storia di «tre figlie della Cina», cioè le vicissitudini della nonna di Jung Chang, della madre e dell'autrice stessa, le cui avventure, esperienze di vita e sofferenze si intrecciano …

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 …

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. …