Jung Chang

In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early …

A New York Times Notable Book Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. …

Mao: A História Desconhecida é um livro lançado em 2005 criado pela escritora Jung Chang e seu marido, o historiador Jon Halliday e sua equipe, tratando-se de uma biografia de Mao Tsé-Tung, ditador comunista da República Popular da China, expondo diversos fatos sobre sua liderança, tais como golpes, assassinatos e …