“Sequel to Wild Swans, Jung Chang’s expose still matters and those affected by regime rule need their voice more than ever…“
How do you pour into the pages all the circumstances, brutality and life under Chines regime rule? How do you convey that of a family torn apart, reunions, imprisonment and managing to keep a sane mind?
Yet this is Jung Chang’s gift in writing. She’s completed another poignant, truthful memoir – her sequel to Wild Swans, still banned in China.
Jung Chang uses her meticulous research, eyewitness accounts and interviews to bring an authentic expose of life in Mao China, post Mao, the economic reforms of the nineties and now the revival of Mao systems under China’s modern rule.
A fascinating insight through significant, devastating cultural change and dominance but also a testament to how families still held onto their intrinsic value, kinship was treasured and their future was still hoped for.
Daily routines of work, study and hopes for their children still existed within systematic brutality and where mistrust was their first instinct.
At great personal cost, Jung Chang gives us her story after Wild Swans.
Book Clubs can discuss the extraordinary life of Jung Chang, her dedication to education and how writing brings truth into the light.
Sue Reid
Read By Reid NZ
Harper Collins Australia
ISBN 9780008661083