{"product_id":"fly-wild-swans-my-mother-myself-and-china-paperback","title":"Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INSTANT\u003ci\u003e SUNDAY TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO \u003ci\u003eWILD SWANS\u003c\/i\u003e, THE\nMULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph and\nFinancial Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A must-read … magnificent’ \u003c\/b\u003eDAILY TELEGRAPH *****\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Beautiful and moving' \u003c\/b\u003eELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJung Chang’s \u003ci\u003eWild Swans\u003c\/i\u003e was a book that defined a\ngeneration, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother –\n‘three daughters of China’. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother’s birth\n– and foot-binding – when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao\nZedong’s rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung’s parents\nwere subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in\n1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the ‘reforms’.\nJung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave\nCommunist China for the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eNearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit\nand isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States’\ndominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung’s life has been\nintimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the\nregime in those years were rich and revealing – especially so because all her\nbooks were (and are) banned.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eFly, Wild Swans\u003c\/i\u003e is the follow-up to Wild Swans and\nbrings the story of Jung’s family – along with that of China – up to date. The\nbook is in many ways Jung’s love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also\nabout her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural\nRevolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far\naway in Jung’s subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present\nChina, and what’s more, it promises to herald the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChina is now at another watershed moment with the era of\nChairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. \u003ci\u003eFly,\nWild Swans\u003c\/i\u003e is Jung’s heartfelt response to that experience, and a book\nfilled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history – both personal and\nglobal. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung’s clear, honest and compelling\nvoice, it is memoir writing at its best.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and\nof the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China'\u003c\/b\u003e RORY STEWART\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Another wonder book from Jung Chang…I am quite blown\naway by it'\u003c\/b\u003e LADY ANTONIA FRASER\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eJung Chang's book 'Fly, Wild Swans' was a Sunday Times\nbestseller w\/c 2025-09-22.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJung Chang\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province,\nChina, in 1952. She was briefly a Red Guard, and then a peasant, a ‘barefoot\ndoctor’, a steelworker and an electrician. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eShe came to Britain in 1978, and became the first person\nfrom the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British\nuniversity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eHer books include ‘Wild Swans’, which won the 1992 NCR Book\nAward and the 1993 British Book of the Year, and sold over 10 million copies.\nShe lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"TIMES DISTRIBUTION PTE LTD","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46346976690383,"sku":"9780008661106","price":25.07,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0574\/5662\/3823\/files\/download_0e38fa69-11d6-4407-8b54-e4abb4be1567.jpg?v=1792378837","url":"https:\/\/popular.com.sg\/products\/fly-wild-swans-my-mother-myself-and-china-paperback","provider":"Popular Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}