Jung Chang – contemporary Chinese-born British author, best known for Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, an international bestseller. The memoir traces the lives of three generations of women in her family against the turbulent backdrop of 20th-century China. Her work blends the personal with the historical, turning memory into literature.
📚 Wild Swans has sold over 13 million copies worldwide. 🚫 The book is banned in China but acclaimed internationally. 🎓 Earned a doctorate from the University of York in the UK. 🖋 Co-authored biographies of Mao Zedong and Empress Dowager Cixi with Jon Halliday. 🌍 Lives in London and is among the most prominent Chinese authors in the West. 💡 Her style has been described as “an intimate epic,” where personal stories reveal history. 📖 Candidly recounted her family’s suffering during the Cultural Revolution. 🏆 Won multiple literary awards, including the NCR Book Award. 👩👩👧 The central figures of her book are her grandmother, mother, and herself. 😮 Worked as a nurse before moving abroad. 😄 Joked she “never intended to write a family memoir–until she realized it was world history.”