by Jung Chang · Pocket · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782266055437
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«Les cygnes sauvages» is the autobiography of Jung Chang, published by Pocket in paperback (635 pages, in French).
Jung Chang reconstructs the history of three generations of women in her family: her grandmother, a general's concubine; her mother, a Communist party official; and the author herself. Their lives trace 20th-century China, from the fall of the empire to Tiananmen, with the Cultural Revolution and its persecutions at the heart of the narrative.
The edition is dated 1993, and the work's subtitle is «Les mémoires d'une famille chinoise de l'Empire céleste à Tiananmen».
A work recommended for readers interested in Chinese history and memoirs with a political backdrop.
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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