Jung Chang

Gebundenes Buch

Fly, Wild Swans

My Mother, Myself and China

Beschreibung

The long-awaited sequel to Wild Swans, the multi-million copy, international bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of women in one family. Jung Chang’s epic family memoir, Wild Swans, defined a generation, chronicling the experiences of Jung, her mother, and her grandmother—“three daughters of China”—as China transformed from empire to Communist nation. Fly, Wild Swans continues the story of Jung’s family—and China—from the late 1970s until today. During that time, China rises from a decrepit and isolated state to world power challenging American dominance as Jung makes a new life in the West—one of the first Chinese to leave her homeland at the end of the Cultural Revolution. As Jung becomes a writer, her life remains intimately entwined with her native land, a relationship made more complex because her books are banned. A love letter to her mother, and a tribute to her grandmother and father, victims of the Cultural Revolution, Fly, Wild Swans reveals that for Jung, the past is never far away. It has shaped her, just as it has molded modern China and continues to influence its future. Today, China is again at another watershed moment: Chairman Xi Jinping seeks to return the country to the Maoist days, building a Communist state with capitalist features. This new Xi era is greatly affecting both Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans brings their story into the present, offering an immersive, deeply moving, and unforgettable account of life in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best.

Autor

Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, Empress Dowager Cixi; and Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister, as well as Mao: The Unknown Story, with her husband, Jon Halliday. She was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952, and is the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to literature and to history, and lives in London with her husband.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 646g
• ISBN-13: 9780063480049
• ISBN-10: 0063480042
• Artikelnr.: 74241226

Rezensionen

'Painful. Astonishing. Honest. Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China'

Rory Stewart

'Fly, Wild Swans is another wonder book from Jung Chang. Elegiac and beautifully written, it brings her story and that of China up to date whilst giving an unforgettable account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship - one that forbids a daughter to visit her mother's deathbed. It is a book about love, family and the terrible price paid by them all in the face of China's cruel politics'

Lady Antonia Fraser

'Jung Chang's powerful and profoundly moving sequel to Wild Swans has been

well worth the wait. Her and her remarkable mother's story since the end of Wild Swans intertwines fascinatingly with that of national socialist modern China, with their love-filled human story threatened by hideous Communist oppression, all over again. Threatened, but because of their bravery and evident decency, never crushed'

Andrew Roberts

'Far more than a sequel, Fly Wild Swans is the elegiac account by Jung Chang of the literary life that made her famous and the price she has paid for being a loyal daughter. Passages of great beauty speak to her love of Chinese culture alongside unsparing descriptions of life under a cruel system. Her book takes the reader into the private worlds, the trade-offs and the dangers of proximity to power in modern China, showing us how much, and yet so little, has changed since the days when Jung Chang's family suffered during the rule of Chairman Mao. In the author's telling, fear has simply been modernised. It is a persuasive and compelling read'

Michael Sheridan