Jung Chang

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader ever written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before -- and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned, and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rule -- in peacetime.

A New York Times Notable BookEmpress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age.At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor’s numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China—behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male.In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Cixi fought against monumental obstacles to change China. Under her the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern industries, railways, electricity, the telegraph and an army and navy with up-to-date weaponry. It was she who abolished gruesome punishments like “death by a thousand cuts” and put an end to foot-binding. She inaugurated women’s liberation and embarked on the path to introduce parliamentary elections to China. Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot.Cixi reigned during extraordinary times and had to deal with a host of major national the Taiping and Boxer rebellions, wars with France and Japan—and an invasion by eight allied powers including Britain, Germany, Russia and the United States. Jung Chang not only records the Empress Dowager’s conduct of domestic and foreign affairs, but also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing’s Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs—one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences. The world Chang describes here, in fascinating detail, seems almost unbelievable in its extraordinary mixture of the very old and the very new.Based on newly available, mostly Chinese, historical documents such as court records, official and private correspondence, diaries and eyewitness accounts, this biography will revolutionize historical thinking about a crucial period in China’s—and the world’s—history. Packed with drama, fast paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world’s population, and as a unique stateswoman.

They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history.Red Sister, Ching-ling, married the 'Father of China', Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao's vice-chair.Little Sister, May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China and a major political figure in her own right.Big Sister, Ei-ling, became Chiang's unofficial main adviser - and made herself one of China's richest women.All three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant mortal danger. They showed great courage and experienced passionate love, as well as despair and heartbreak. They remained close emotionally, even when they embraced opposing political camps and Ching-ling dedicated herself to destroying her two sisters' worlds.Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister is a gripping story of love, war, intrigue, bravery, glamour and betrayal, which takes us on a sweeping journey from Canton to Hawaii to New York, from exiles' quarters in Japan and Berlin to secret meeting rooms in Moscow, and from the compounds of the Communist elite in Beijing to the corridors of power in democratic Taiwan. In a group biography that is by turns intimate and epic, Jung Chang reveals the lives of three extraordinary women who helped shape twentieth-century China.

The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family.“AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN MY GRANDMOTHER became the concubine of a warlord general . . .” So begins Jung Chang’s epic family memoir, Wild Swans, which defines a generation. The book ends in 1978, when Deng Xiaoping opened the door of Communist China, and Jung—twenty-six years old and unstoppably curious, despite years of brainwashing— seized the propitious moment and became one of the first Chinese to leave the tightly sealed country and come to the West. Fly, Wild Swans chronicles her journey and that of her family, along with that of China, as it rose from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power challenging American dominance.During those decades, although she lives in the West, Jung’s life intertwines with her native land in unexpected ways, a rare relationship made more complex because all her books are banned there. Her family story mirrors the ups and downs of China’s transformation, right up to today, as it enters another watershed. Chairman Xi Jinping’s attempt to return China to the anti-American Maoist past has a devastating impact on Jung’s life: She is unable to go to her mother’s deathbed.Fly, Wild Swans is Jung’s love letter and emotional tribute to her extraordinary mother. Profoundly moving, it is filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history—both personal and global. Told in Jung’s clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best.

The history of modern China and the life of Mme. Sun Yat-sen (Soong Ching-ling) are closely aligned. Her husband, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, was the revered founder of the first Chinese Republic. At his side, and alone, after his death in 1925, she worked to bring order to the chaos of postImperial China, a task made all the more complex by her sister's marriage to Kuomintang General Chiang Kai-shek. Her story, which has often been told (mostly recently in The Soong Dynasty, is without question fascinating. But because the history of China in the 20th century is so vast and sprawling, this dry and sometimes fawning account of her life (written from secondary sources and running scarcely over 100 pages) has a tough time even setting the stage for her accomplishments. Though meant only as an introduction (the latest in the Lives of Modern Women series), this brief biography owes readers more than it delivers.

▍本書特色◎以《鴻：三代中國女人的故事》、《慈禧：開啟現代中國的皇太后》、《宋氏三姊妹與她們的丈夫： 20世紀三位傳奇女子，一部動盪百年的中國現代史》暢銷全球的傳記作家張戎，與丈夫哈利戴合著的重量巨作，當年甫問世即震驚世界，中文版出版十五年來，依舊高踞英美亞馬遜中國歷史傳記分類榜。◎張戎夫婦為寫作毛傳，窮十二年之精力，鉅細彌遺解開不為人知的歷史真相。作者走遍世界各地，訪問數百名毛的親友、與毛共事、交往的中外知情人、見證者及各國政要，包括六名總統、六名總理、四名外交部長、十三名前共產黨領袖。這些人物中，有美國前國務卿季辛吉、美國前總統福特、英國前首相奚斯、達賴喇嘛、史達林與赫魯雪夫的翻譯、張學良、蔣緯國、陳立夫等。更走訪各國超過三十個檔案館，取得許多聞所未聞的史料，並加以認真嚴謹的考證。◎本書問世後，僅於英國就創下半年銷售破60,000冊的佳績，目前在全世界已有超過三十種語言版本，長期高踞各國暢銷榜。美國總統布希向到訪的德國總理梅克爾推薦本書，「滾石樂隊」主唱米克・傑格、足球明星貝克漢、前南非總統曼德拉都是本書讀者。▍內容簡介毛澤東，這位一度主宰世界四分之一人口的統治者，曾導致至少七千萬人在和平時期死亡，其真實面貌至今仍在雲遮霧罩中。以《鴻》聞名全球的傳記作家張戎，與丈夫喬・哈利戴歷時十二年，走遍天下，搜集了難以數計的中外文獻史料，採訪了各國元首、毛澤東親友、歷史見證人、共產黨領袖等數百人，經過嚴謹考證，兼以引人入勝的生動文筆，完成了這部舉世震驚的傳記巨作，在全球引起強烈反響，《時代》週刊稱之為「威力像原子彈」。這是一部中國現代史波瀾壯闊的長篇畫卷。它展示了毛澤東戲劇性的一生，揭示了大量聞所未聞的事實：毛為什麼會加入共產黨；他怎樣坐上了中共第一把交椅；他怎樣一步步奪取中國；他又如何籌劃運作，意圖進軍世界。毛澤東跌宕起伏的上升史，中共最高層的具體決策過程，共產主義於中國崛起的完整內幕，毛發動包括文革等各種政治運動的前前後後，都一一再現。使讀者對中國的一系列悲劇，如大躍進時期三千八百萬人餓死的根源，有「原來如此！」的感覺。作者不僅還原了一個活生生的毛，跟他有關的其他人物──斯大林、蔣介石、毛的副手劉少奇、周恩來、林彪、鄧小平等──也在作者筆下各具特性，栩栩如生。關於毛的私生活，妻子兒女，本書更披露了大量第一手資料，包括毛的妻子楊開慧關於毛的八篇書信等迄今仍嚴密封鎖的珍貴史料。書中收錄的六十五幅照片，許多來自各國檔案館，囊括了毛人生關鍵片刻。本書奉行秉筆直書、言必有據的宗旨，基於史料，精於細節。人們在新世紀中，要回首真正的二十世紀中國歷史，這是一部不可或缺的必讀傳記。

This dissertation, "The Phycomycete Flora of Soil and Litter in Hong Kong" by Jung, Chang, 張蓉, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. 10.5353/th_b3126152Soils - China - Hong KongPhycomycetesSoil microbiology