Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British University. Jung Chang lives in London and teaches the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University.
Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991. With her husband, Jon Halliday, she is also the author of Mao: The Unknown Story (2005, nonfiction).
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Biography, History, Politics and government, China, biography, Empresses, Heads of state, New York Times reviewed, Women, Accessible book, Administrative and political divisions, Agricultural machinery, Agriculture, Américains d'origine irlandaise, Anecdotes, Animal industry, Autobiography, Belletristische Darstellung, Biographies, Chang, Jung, -- 1952-, China, China -- History -- 20th century., China -- Social conditions -- 20th century., China, history, 19th century, China, history, 20th century, China, politics and governmentPeople
Cixi Empress dowager of China (1835-1908), Jung Chang (1952-), Ch'ing-ling Sung, Chou En-lai, De-hong Xia (1931-), Deng Xiaoping, Mao Zedong (1893-1976), Qingling Song (1893-1981), Rong Zhang (1952-), Yu-fang Yang (1909-1969), Zedong Mao (1893-1976)Time
20th century, 1861-1912, 1949-, 1949- ..., 1949-1976, 1949-1976 Mao's Cultural Revolution, 19th century, Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976, Geschichte 1909-1978ID Numbers
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- Chang, Jung
- 张戎
- 張戎
- Zhāng Róng
- Chang Jung
- Rong Zhang
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