Wild Swans

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• Grandmother’s Footsteps

  Jung Chang’s grandmother, Yu Fang, walked ‘like a tender young willow in a spring breeze’, meaning that she could only totter because her feet had been bound and the arches crushed with a stone. If this was not done, a girl would be exposed to the co ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

• Literature of the Wounded

  In Legacies: A Chinese Mosaic, Bette Bao Lord’s memoir of her three years in Peking as the American ambassador’s wife, she recalled that “all Chinese were in pain, and taking their pulse, reading their temperature, charting every change and finding t ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Wed, 25 Aug 2010

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  powerful and enlightening

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  D said on Aug 13, 2009 about the Audio Cassette edition | Add your feedback

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  Most gripping, graphic, and important book I've ever read

  This is simply a must-read book for anyone interested in Chinese history. The astonishing and tragic last century unfolds chronologically through the personal stories of three unbelievably strong women: the author, her mother, and her grandmother. It begins with the warloard period, covers the brief ... (continue)

  This is simply a must-read book for anyone interested in Chinese history. The astonishing and tragic last century unfolds chronologically through the personal stories of three unbelievably strong women: the author, her mother, and her grandmother. It begins with the warloard period, covers the brief democracy, the Japanese Invasion, the war with the Kuomintang, and finally the decades of Communism that followed.

  You will not believe the horrors that occurred during this time and the way that somehow (or sometimes somehow not) this family was able to cope with it. An unabashed, inside, unedited view of what it was like live in China during these ages.

  Be warned that if you are sensitive, there are some gruesome tales in this book. But if you can stomach it, you won't be sorry you read it.

  Read this to enlighten and expand your knowledge of Chinese history.

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  audioreader said on Jul 3, 2009 | Add your feedback

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  Fantastic book!

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  Zelie said on Dec 27, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  A very long book, but well worth the effort. I felt sorry for the women in the book. they were all good people but no matter how hard they tried someone always had it in for them".

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  Janh said on Dec 20, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  This book does not fail to make me cry. In a really good way.

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  Jennifer Gearing said on Nov 16, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  It gets to the limits of human endurance and shows the results of longdated brainwashing. Very impressing.

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  Sei8 said on Nov 5, 2008 about the Audio Cassette edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback 688 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0006374921
• ISBN-13: 9780006374923
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Pub date: Jan 01, 1993
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 774 mm x 323 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette and Others
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