![]() Beyond opening up an understanding of the political regimes and social constraints operating in China, this memoir is also great for anyone interested in commentaries on human nature, as well as the female experience. Instead, it reads like fiction, since the experiences of the three women are both exhilarating and devastating. Whilst being highly historically credible, this memoir is by no means academically challenging. Through these three generations of female experience, Jung Chang gives a wonderfully vivid and real account of what life in China was like in the 20th century. In this memoir, Jung Chang walks us through the lives of three Chinese women – her grandmother, her mother, and herself – growing up in pre-communist, revolutionary and communist China. Chinese culture and history was something of a mystery to me, even by the time I was in Year 11, so when I saw a book called Wild Swans on my dad’s bookshelf I was pretty intrigued. ![]() ![]() Whether it was the Second World War, Stalin’s regime, or the Norman conquest in the 11th century, I felt like the curriculum left out a huge chunk of the world. History lessons at school were always very geared towards the British and European experience. ![]()
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