Jung Chang

1!=: 1, Thrcc-lnch Qoldcn Lilies' — Concubine to a Warlord Qeneral (1909'1935) At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general, the police chief of a tenuous national government of China. The year was 1924 and China was in chaos. Much of it, including...

Danksagung Jon Halliday hat in vielfältiger Weise an der Entstehung dieses Buches mitgewirkt. Er hat mein Englisch geglättet, aber das ist nur sein augenfälligster Beitrag. Vor allem haben wir jeden Tag über das Buch gesprochen, und dadurch war ich gezwungen, meine Gedanken zu ordnen und die...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Jon Halliday has helped me create Wild Swans. Of his many contributions, polishing my English was only the most obvious. Through our daily discussions, he forced me into greater clarification of both the stories and my thoughts, and helped me search the English language for the...

WILD SWANS Jung Chang was bom in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Re^l Guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor,' a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later, ^ assistant lecturer at...