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Find out moreISBN: 9780007241675
Publication date: 05/02/2007
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers
Format: Paperback (b Format)
ISBN: | 9780007241675 |
Publication date: | 5th February 2007 |
Author: | Jung Chang |
Publisher: | Harpercollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback (b Format) |
Pagination: | 720 pages |
Genres: | Biography / Autobiography, eBook Favourites, |
Collections: | 50+ Novels That Explore the Wonders of Asia, |
Categories: | Biography: general, Asian history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, |
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. Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991.
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