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THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION
Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West.
Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned.
Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future.
China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal andglobal. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best.
Jung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West.
Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned.
Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future.
China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal andglobal. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best.
'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
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