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Jung Chang (simplified Chinese: 张戎; traditional Chinese: 張戎; pinyin: Zhāng Róng; Wade–Giles: Chang Jung, Mandarin pronunciation: [tʂɑ́ŋ ɻʊ̌ŋ], born 25 March 1952) is a Chinese-born British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China.
Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005.
Chang was born 25 March 1952 in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China. Her parents were both Communist Party of China officials, and her father was greatly interested in literature. As a child she quickly developed a love of reading and writing, which included composing poetry.
As Party cadres, life was relatively good for her family at first; her parents worked hard, and her father became successful as a propagandist at a regional level. His formal ranking was as a "level 10 official", meaning that he was one of 20,000 or so most important cadres, or ganbu, in the country. The Communist Party provided her family with a dwelling in a guarded, walled compound, a maid and chauffeur, as well as a wet-nurse and nanny for Chang and her four siblings. This level of privilege in China's relatively impoverished 1950s was extraordinary.
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Kirsty Wark interviews Jung Chang, author of 'Wild Swans' and also a biographer of Chairman Mao on her experiences in the Cultural Revolution Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCNewsnight Twitter: https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsnight Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/bbcnewsnight
http://bit.ly/1cIkyBF Called both a tyrant and a reformer, Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who led China for nearly fifty years, belongs on any list of indomitable women rulers. In this extraordinary biography Chang, co-author of Mao: the Unknown Story, recounts the series of wily political maneuvers, ruthless battles with enemies, and insatiable curiosity about the world that made this woman not just a survivor but formidable leader. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the we...
Bestselling author Jung Chang was among the high-profile speakers at the 2013 HKTDC Hong Kong Book Fair, 17-23 July. Author of the 1991 bestseller Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China and Mao: The Unknown Story, Ms Chang took part in two public forums on 19 and 20 July, moderated by Sir David Tang. She has also just released a new biography "Empress Dowager Cixi -- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China" Hear the full-length audio podcast of this interview - http://goo.gl/ByOxXN Jung Chang: http://www.jungchang.net/ Hong Kong Book Fair: http://hkbookfair.hktdc.com/en/ Hong Kong Book Fair 2013 Author of the Year Chan Koonchung's interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy5JtxUGU-4 Other English Authors' interviews: Authors' highlight - http://youtu.be/WdKi9O06oME Biographer William S...
Chinese-born British writer Jung Chang’s multigenerational memoir of China, Wild Swans, was the highest-selling non-fiction paperback ever published, translated into 30 languages and selling more than 10 million copies. Twenty-three years later, it’s still banned in China. Chang’s 2005 biography of Chairman Mao, written with her husband Jon Halliday, courted further controversy with its negative portrayal of the Chinese leader. Her latest book Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is a biography of the legendary woman who ruled China from behind the scenes for almost half a century, reforming it in the process – including banning foot-binding and forcing the nation out of its self-enforced isolation. In this video, Jung Chang talks to Australian author Toni Jorda...
Her books "Wild Swans", a memoir of her life, growing up in China, and a controversial biography of Mao Zedong are both banned in China but now, she's out with a new one, a book on China's misunderstood empress dowager, Cixi. Best-selling author Jung Chang joins us in studio. For more AM Live! interviews, please visit: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/amlive/?cid=YTTV
Jung Chang speaks at Oslo Freedom Forum 2009 The Historical Truth Behind Mao's China www.OsloFreedomForum.com @OsloFF #OsloFF Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, speaks about the power of literature and the importance of truth in historical biography, and how the Chinese regime was able to manipulate that truth in order to disguise Mao Zedong-one of history's most terrible murderers-as a compassionate and successful ruler.
This podcast covers the early years as a boy and young man. This is a replay of ACU show 87 Breakdown of a BIG Book: 5 Things You'll Learn from Mao: The Unknown Story 1. Mao became a Communist at the age of 27 for purely pragmatic reasons: a job and income from the Russians. 2. Far from organizing the Long March in 1934, Mao was nearly left behind by his colleagues who could not stand him and had tried to oust him several times. The aim of the March was to link up with Russia to get arms. The Reds survived the March because Chiang Kai-shek let them, in a secret horse-trade for his son and heir, whom Stalin was holding hostage in Russia. 3. Mao grew opium on a large scale. 4. After he conquered China, Mao's over-riding goal was to become a superpower and dominate the world: "Control th...
The author of White Swans on the terror inflicted on China and its people by Mao Zedong
Kirsty Wark interviews Jung Chang, author of 'Wild Swans' and also a biographer of Chairman Mao on her experiences in the Cultural Revolution Newsnight is the BBC's flagship news and current affairs TV programme - with analysis, debate, exclusives, and robust interviews. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BBCNewsnight Twitter: https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bbcnewsnight Snapchat: https://www.snapchat.com/add/bbcnewsnight
http://bit.ly/1cIkyBF Called both a tyrant and a reformer, Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who led China for nearly fifty years, belongs on any list of indomitable women rulers. In this extraordinary biography Chang, co-author of Mao: the Unknown Story, recounts the series of wily political maneuvers, ruthless battles with enemies, and insatiable curiosity about the world that made this woman not just a survivor but formidable leader. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the we...
Bestselling author Jung Chang was among the high-profile speakers at the 2013 HKTDC Hong Kong Book Fair, 17-23 July. Author of the 1991 bestseller Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China and Mao: The Unknown Story, Ms Chang took part in two public forums on 19 and 20 July, moderated by Sir David Tang. She has also just released a new biography "Empress Dowager Cixi -- The Concubine Who Launched Modern China" Hear the full-length audio podcast of this interview - http://goo.gl/ByOxXN Jung Chang: http://www.jungchang.net/ Hong Kong Book Fair: http://hkbookfair.hktdc.com/en/ Hong Kong Book Fair 2013 Author of the Year Chan Koonchung's interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy5JtxUGU-4 Other English Authors' interviews: Authors' highlight - http://youtu.be/WdKi9O06oME Biographer William S...
Chinese-born British writer Jung Chang’s multigenerational memoir of China, Wild Swans, was the highest-selling non-fiction paperback ever published, translated into 30 languages and selling more than 10 million copies. Twenty-three years later, it’s still banned in China. Chang’s 2005 biography of Chairman Mao, written with her husband Jon Halliday, courted further controversy with its negative portrayal of the Chinese leader. Her latest book Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is a biography of the legendary woman who ruled China from behind the scenes for almost half a century, reforming it in the process – including banning foot-binding and forcing the nation out of its self-enforced isolation. In this video, Jung Chang talks to Australian author Toni Jorda...
Her books "Wild Swans", a memoir of her life, growing up in China, and a controversial biography of Mao Zedong are both banned in China but now, she's out with a new one, a book on China's misunderstood empress dowager, Cixi. Best-selling author Jung Chang joins us in studio. For more AM Live! interviews, please visit: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/amlive/?cid=YTTV
Jung Chang speaks at Oslo Freedom Forum 2009 The Historical Truth Behind Mao's China www.OsloFreedomForum.com @OsloFF #OsloFF Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans, speaks about the power of literature and the importance of truth in historical biography, and how the Chinese regime was able to manipulate that truth in order to disguise Mao Zedong-one of history's most terrible murderers-as a compassionate and successful ruler.
This podcast covers the early years as a boy and young man. This is a replay of ACU show 87 Breakdown of a BIG Book: 5 Things You'll Learn from Mao: The Unknown Story 1. Mao became a Communist at the age of 27 for purely pragmatic reasons: a job and income from the Russians. 2. Far from organizing the Long March in 1934, Mao was nearly left behind by his colleagues who could not stand him and had tried to oust him several times. The aim of the March was to link up with Russia to get arms. The Reds survived the March because Chiang Kai-shek let them, in a secret horse-trade for his son and heir, whom Stalin was holding hostage in Russia. 3. Mao grew opium on a large scale. 4. After he conquered China, Mao's over-riding goal was to become a superpower and dominate the world: "Control th...
The author of White Swans on the terror inflicted on China and its people by Mao Zedong
http://bit.ly/1cIkyBF Called both a tyrant and a reformer, Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), who led China for nearly fifty years, belongs on any list of indomitable women rulers. In this extraordinary biography Chang, co-author of Mao: the Unknown Story, recounts the series of wily political maneuvers, ruthless battles with enemies, and insatiable curiosity about the world that made this woman not just a survivor but formidable leader. Founded by Carla Cohen and Barbara Meade in 1984, Politics & Prose Bookstore is Washington, D.C.'s premier independent bookstore and cultural hub, a gathering place for people interested in reading and discussing books. Politics & Prose offers superior service, unusual book choices, and a haven for book lovers in the store and online. Visit them on the we...
Chinese-born British writer Jung Chang’s multigenerational memoir of China, Wild Swans, was the highest-selling non-fiction paperback ever published, translated into 30 languages and selling more than 10 million copies. Twenty-three years later, it’s still banned in China. Chang’s 2005 biography of Chairman Mao, written with her husband Jon Halliday, courted further controversy with its negative portrayal of the Chinese leader. Her latest book Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China is a biography of the legendary woman who ruled China from behind the scenes for almost half a century, reforming it in the process – including banning foot-binding and forcing the nation out of its self-enforced isolation. In this video, Jung Chang talks to Australian author Toni Jorda...
This podcast covers the early years as a boy and young man. This is a replay of ACU show 87 Breakdown of a BIG Book: 5 Things You'll Learn from Mao: The Unknown Story 1. Mao became a Communist at the age of 27 for purely pragmatic reasons: a job and income from the Russians. 2. Far from organizing the Long March in 1934, Mao was nearly left behind by his colleagues who could not stand him and had tried to oust him several times. The aim of the March was to link up with Russia to get arms. The Reds survived the March because Chiang Kai-shek let them, in a secret horse-trade for his son and heir, whom Stalin was holding hostage in Russia. 3. Mao grew opium on a large scale. 4. After he conquered China, Mao's over-riding goal was to become a superpower and dominate the world: "Control th...
Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, translated into 37 languages and selling more than 13 million copies. Through the stories of her grandmother, mother and herself, Jung Chang reveals the tragic history of China’s twentieth century. Dowager Empress Cixi: The Concubine who launched modern China, published 2013, examines her long rule and how she brought a medieval empire into the modern age until its collapse in 1908.
One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, ‘Wild Swans’ is an epic true story of how one family lived and survived through some of China’s most unsettling and violent times. Author Jung Chang is interviewed by the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of The Pike, Lucy Hughes Hallett on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Wild Swans. The publication of ‘Wild Swans’ in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award. Few books have ever had such an impact on their readers. Through the story of three generations o...
http://www.eurolitnetwork.com/ Sounds Right is delighted to present you with a special Christmas gift – the film of our Fashion and Fiction event with Wild Swans author Jung Chang at the V&A;. Happy Christmas! Introduction by ROSIE GOLDSMITH/SOUNDS RIGHT Fashion and Fiction is a series of illustrated interviews with great writers from round the world who believe, as I do, in the creative crossover of fashion and fiction. Margaret Atwood launched the series this year in spectacular fashion – revealing her own passion for clothes, and their significance in her novels – followed by the equally fascinating Linda Grant. Already signed up for next year we have Joanna Trollope on Jane Austen and Sarah Dunant on the Italian Renaissance. Clothing and costume have been integral to narrative and...
Chang Jung Lin v Omar Al Shaheen 2017 World Pool Masters Quarterfinal The 24th annual World Pool Masters will take place from Friday to Sunday 17th – 19th February as pool’s longest running invitational event moves to GIBRALTAR. 16 of the world’s best players will gather in the shadow of the famous Rock of Gibraltar to contest the Masters and determine the destination of the $20,000 top prize.
The story of the Empress Dowager Cixi, The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, is utterly gripping. At the age of 16 she was chosen as one of the emperor's concubines. She rose to become the absolute ruler of China and reformed the medieval empire. But for all her achievements, was there a price to pay in terms of violent suppression and cruelty? Jung Chang discusses this controversial and compelling figure with Jon Snow, no stranger to national upheavals. Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. Jon Snow is one of our most distinguished broadcasters. This event was part of the Charleston Festival 2014 and took place on Friday 16th May 2014 and was supported by Hurstpierpoint College. See more at: http://www.charleston.org.uk/whats-on/festivals/the-charleston-f...
In time for Chuseok, we've invited Jung Chang-soo, the CEO of the Korea Tourism Organization, to join us in the studio and talk about the present and future of the tourism industry. During the interview, Jung describes the measures that have been set forth to attract more foreign tourists and promote tourism in Korea. We will also take a look at the hidden attractions throughout the country that all tourists should include in their itineraries as well as the places that foreigners should visit over the Chuseok holidays. Moreover, Jung shares the plans for the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and how he wishes to create a "tourism belt" tying the tourist attractions in Korea, China and Japan to attract more travelers from across the world. So join us on "The Innerview...