Wild swans : three daughters of China
Tells the story of three women--Jung Chang, her mother, and her grandmother--whose lives and fortunes mirror the tumultuous twentieth century in China
Biography
524 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780671685461, 9780743246989, 9780385425476, 0671685465, 0743246985, 0385425473
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"Three-inch golden lilies"-concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933)
"Even plain cold water is sweet"-my grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938)
"They all say what a happy place Manchukuo is"-life under the Japanese (1938-1945)
"Slaves who have no country of your own"-ruled by different masters (1945-1947)
"Daughter for sale for 10 kilos of rice"-in battle for a new China (1947-1948)
"Talking about love"-a revolutionary marriage (1948-1949)
"Going through the five mountain passes"-my mother's long march (1949-1950)
"Returning home robed in embroidered silk"-to family and bandits (1949-1951)
"When a man gets power, even his chicken and dogs rise to heaven"-living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953)
"Suffering will make you a better Communist"-my mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956)
"After the anti-rightist campaign no one opens their mouth"-China silenced (1956-1958)
"Capable women can make a meal without food"-famine (1958-1962)
"Thousand-gold little precious"-in a privileged cocoon (1958-1965)
"Father is close, mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao"-the cult of Mao (1964-1965)
"Destroy first, and construction will look after itself"-the cultural revolution begins (1965-1966)
"Soar to heaven, and pierce the Earth"-Mao's red guards (June-August 1966)
"Do you want our children to become blacks?"-my parents' dilemma (August-October 1966)
"More than gigantic wonderful news"-pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966)
"Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence"-my parents tormented (December 1966-1967)
"I will not sell my soul"-my father arrested (1967-1968)
"Giving charcoal in snow"-my siblings and my friends (1967-1968)
"Thought reform through labor"-to the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969)
"The more books you read, the more stupid you become"-I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971)
"Please accept my apologies that come a lifetime too late"-my parents in camps (1969-1972)
"The fragrance of sweet wind"-a new life with the electricians' manual and six crises (1972-1973)
"Sniffing after foreigners farts and calling them sweet"-learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974)
"If this is paradise, what then is hell?"-the death of my father (1974-1976)
Fighting to take wing (1976-1978)
Includes index