Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Author: Jung Chang
An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn 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 days o….Read More
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