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Jung Chang
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1952
Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in the People's Republic of China. Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005. Reception of the work by academics has been largely negative, though the work has received acclaim in the popular press.
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Birth
1952
Death
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First book
1986
Years writing
40
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, China, in 1952 and later became a British citizen.
Before becoming a writer, she worked as a peasant, a barefoot doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician.
She was the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university.
Her most famous work, Wild Swans, tells the story of three generations of Chinese women.
Beyond her work as a historian and biographer, she has also explored linguistics and poetry.