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three daughters of China

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Wild swans

three daughters of China

1st Anchor Books ed.
  • 4.4 (8 ratings) ·
  • 136 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 15 Have read

"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.

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Publisher
Anchor Books, Anchor
Language
English
Pages
524

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Cover of: Wilde Schwa ne
Wilde Schwa ne: die Geschichte einer Familie Drei Frauen in China von der Kaiserzeit bis heute
2004, Knaur Taschenbuch, Droemer Knaur
in German
Cover of: Wild swans
Wild swans: three daughters of China
2003, A touchstone book
Texte imprimé in English
Cover of: Wild swans
Wild swans: three daughters of China
2003, A touchstone book
Texte imprimé in English
Cover of: Wilde Schwäne.
Wilde Schwäne.
September 1, 2002, Droemersche Verlagsanstalt Th. Knaur Nachf., GmbH & Co.
Paperback in German
Cover of: Wilde Schwa˜ne
Wilde Schwa˜ne: die Geschichte einer Familie ; drei Frauen in China von der Kaiserzeit bis heute
2000, Droemer Knaur
in German - Vollst. Taschenbuchausg.
Cover of: Wilde Zwanen
Wilde Zwanen: Drie Dochters van China
1994, Forum
Paperback in Dutch
Cover of: Wild swans
Wild swans: three daughters of China
1993, Flamingo, Doubleday
in English
Cover of: Les cygnes sauvages
Cover of: Wild swans
Wild swans: three daughters of China
1992, Anchor Books, Anchor
Paperback in English - 1st Anchor Books ed.
Cover of: Wild swans
Wild swans: three daughters of China
1991, Simon & Schuster
in English

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Table of Contents

Author's note
Family tree
Chronology
Three-inch golden lilies : concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933)
Even plain cold water is sweet : my grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938)
They all say what a happy place Manchukuo is : life under the Japanese (1938-1945)
Slaves who have no country of your own : ruled by different masters (1945-1947)
Daughter for sale for 10 kilos of rice : in battle for a new China (1947-1948)
Talking about love : a revolutionary marriage (1948-1949)
Going through the five mountain passes : my mother's long march (1949-1950)
Returning home robed in embroidered silk : to family and bandits (1949-1951)
When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven : living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953)
Suffering will make you a better communist : my mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956)
After the anti-Rightist campaign no one opens their mouth : China silenced (1956-1958)
Capable women can make a meal without food : famine (1958-1962)
Thousand-gold little precious : in a privileged cocoon (1958-1965)
Father is close, mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao : the cult of Mao (1964-1965)
Destroy first, and construction will look after itself : the Cultural Revolution begins (1965-1966)
Soar to heaven, and pierce the earth : Mao's Red Guards (June-August 1966)
Do you want our children to become "Blacks"? : my parents' dilemma (August-October 1966)
More than gigantic wonderful news : pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966)
Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence : my parents tormented (December 1966-1967)
I will not sell my soul : my father arrested (1967-1968)
Giving charcoal in snow : my siblings and my friends (1967-1968)
Thought reform through labor : to the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969)
The more books you read, the more stupid you become : I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971)
Please accept my apologies that come a lifetime too late : my parents in camps (1969-1972)
The fragrance of sweet wind : a new life with The Electricians' Manual and Six Crises (1972-1973)
Sniffing after foreigners' farts and calling them sweet : learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974)
If this is paradise, what then is hell? : The death of my father (1974-1976)
Fighting to take wing (1976-1978)
Epilogue

Edition Notes

"Anchor Worldviews books"--Half t.p.
Previously published: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Includes index.

Published in
New York, USA

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951.05/092, B
Library of Congress
CT1828.C478 A3 1992

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
524 p., [16] p. of plates
Number of pages
524
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1716622M
Internet Archive
wildswansthreeda00chanrich
ISBN 10
0385425473
ISBN 13
9780385425476
LCCN
92019078
OCLC/WorldCat
26054718
Library Thing
3451
Goodreads
529803

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