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Jung Chang

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

4.29 avg rating — 117,782 ratings — published 1991 — 223 editions

Mao: The Unknown Story
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3.82 avg rating — 13,348 ratings — published 2002 — 87 editions

Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

3.90 avg rating — 10,204 ratings — published 2013 — 74 editions

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

3.89 avg rating — 3,912 ratings — published 2019 — 13 editions

Wild Swans
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Madame Sun Yat-Sen: Soong Ching-Ling
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3.43 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions

毛澤東：鮮為人知的故事【上冊・亞馬遜獨家】
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — 2 editions

Wild Swans & Watching The Tree
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The Phycomycete Flora of Soil and Litter in Hong Kong

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Mao: The Unknown Story

2005 biography of Mao Zedong

Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of the Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) that was written by the husband-and-wife team of the writer Jung Chang and the historian Jon Halliday, who detail Mao's early life, his introduction to the Chinese Communist Party, and his political career. The book summarizes Mao's transition from a rebel against the autocratic Kuomintang government to the totalitarian dictator over the People's Republic of China. Chang and Halliday heavily cover Mao's role in the planning and the execution of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. They open the book saying "Mao Tse-tung, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world's population, was responsible for well over 70 million deaths in peacetime, more than any other twentieth-century leader.

In conducting their research for the book over the course of a decade, the authors interviewed hundreds of people who were close to Mao at some point in his life, used recently-published memoirs

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Jung Chang

Chinese-British author (born 1952)

Jung ChangCBE (traditional Chinese: 張戎; simplified Chinese: 张戎; pinyin: Zhāng Róng; Wade–Giles: Chang Jung, Mandarin pronunciation:[tʂɑ́ŋɻʊ̌ŋ]; born 25 March 1952) is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China.^[3] Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005.

Life in China

Chang was born on 25 March 1952 in Yibin, Sichuan as the second daughter and child of five children. Her parents were both Chinese Communist Party officials, and her father was greatly interested in literature. As a child she quickly developed a love of reading and writing, which included composing poetry.

As Party cadres, life was relatively good for her family at first; her parents worked hard, and her father became successful as a propagandist at a regional level. His