"Wild Swans, first published in 1991 and written by Jung Chang with the help of her husband, Irish-born historian and writer Jon Halliday, had a global impact few authors dare to dream of. It told the story of three generations of women in 20th-century China Chang's grandmother, her mother and herself and became one of the most popular nonfiction books in history, selling more than 13m copies in 37 languages and collecting a fistful of awards and commendations."
"Wild Swans was Chang's second book: her first was a biography of Soong Ching-ling, the wife of the early 20th-century revolutionary Sun Yat-sen, which, she volunteers, had deservedly little impact. Wild Swans was different: animated by a powerful family story, set against the dramatic political background of war and revolution and enlivened by Halliday's formidable narrative talent, it was an instant hit."
Fly, Wild Swans returns to the family saga beginning with the grandmother's birth in 1900, the binding of her feet, and her marriage at 17 to a warlord from whose household she escaped with her infant daughter. The infant later joined the communist struggle against the Kuomintang and married a fellow revolutionary who became a senior official. Wild Swans previously sold over 13 million copies in 37 languages and won numerous awards. The earlier success combined intimate family narrative with major political events and benefited from Jon Halliday's narrative craft. Subsequent biographies by the same team attracted academic criticism for perceived weaknesses in rigour. Fly, Wild Swans now resumes the personal story after 1978.
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