--- product_id: 158323984 title: "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Paperback – August 12, 2003" brand: "jung chang" price: "501463₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 4 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/158323984-wild-swans-three-daughters-of-china-paperback-august-12-2003 store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Paperback – August 12, 2003 **Brand:** jung chang **Price:** 501463₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Paperback – August 12, 2003 by jung chang - **How much does it cost?** 501463₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/158323984-wild-swans-three-daughters-of-china-paperback-august-12-2003) ## Best For - jung chang enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted jung chang brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review "Wild Swans is riveting. It's blindingly good: a mad adventure story, a fairy tale of courage, and a tale of atrocities. You can't, as they say, put it down." Source: Newsday"Her family chronicle resembles a popular novel that stars strong, beautiful women and provides cameo roles for famous men....But Wild Swans is no romance. It's a story...about the survival of a Chinese family through a century of disaster." Source: The New Yorker"A mesmerizing memoir." Source: Time"An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact." --Hillary Clinton, O, The Oprah Magazine"An inspiring tale of women who survived every kind of hardship, deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact."  Source: Hillary Clinton, O, The Oprah Magazine Read more About the Author Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of York in 1982, the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, with whom she wrote Mao: The Unknown Story. Read more ## Images ![Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Paperback – August 12, 2003 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51mJAGYthaL.jpg) ![Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Paperback – August 12, 2003 - Image 2](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/514B0IU-1aL.jpg) ![Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Paperback – August 12, 2003 - Image 3](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31aklvlXxIL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What you never knew about China *by A***R on September 20, 2016* This book is written in a factual way that does not attempt to play with emotions but rather to present 20th Century China as it was. Reading it as a seventy-five year old, I was fascinated that she presented such a complete timeline. I had no idea while I was graduating from high school things were happeneing in China that I hadn't a clue about. And so forth throughout my life. I think this has been one of the most eye-opening books I have ever read. I am very grateful to Jung Change for writing it with such restraint and honesty. I'm so glad she's not there any more. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Learning about the unknown China *by B***I on January 30, 2017* I chose this book because I've been reading a number of memoirs and it's classified in that genre. I did not expect I would also be reading a graphic and frequently shocking history of modern China. I was shocked by what I learned of the brutality and suffering the Chinese people endured, and the comparison of Mao to other notorious leaders such as Stalin.The author Jung Chang, who emigrated to London, also describes the joy of literature, beauty in architecture and nature, travel, and participation in a free and open society that I myself experience and, I fear, take for granted.I recommend this book to anyone who has family members who left China during the Cultural Revolution, to anyone whose mother and grandmothers have been strong positive influences in their life, and to all who want to recognize and learn about the destructive effects of being trapped in an authoritarian regime. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'll not forget this book...ever. *by M***T on December 30, 2013* Most often when I review a popular book I liked, I look to the one-star reviews rather than those with five. This is more so I'm not influenced by the words and sentiments in the raves. I want the review to reflect my own reading experience, not the viewpoint of others. The pans are usually good for a laugh, and they often give me a starting point for my own assessment of the book.I've come to "Wild Swans" late, learning of it only recently from a friend who lived in China awhile teaching English. Ordinarily averse to reading books others recommend to me (don't really know why) this time it worked, in part I suspect because my friend in describing some of the fascinating revelations it contained tugged back the hem of a curtain I hadn't realized was blocking my view of a land and a culture far beyond anything I had imagined. Many of the handful of disappointed readers bemoaned that "Wild Swans" didn't excite them, didn't have enough dialogue to suit their taste for action. They compared the book to works of fiction or fictionalized biographies. They must have missed the parts describing the incomprehensible horrors the Japanese committed on the Chinese in World War II, and then by the Chinese themselves in the subsequent struggles for political control and ultimately by the prevailing Communist Party and by the regime headed by Mao Zedong, a certifiable madman who relentlessly set his subjects against each other by the millions, urging them to torture and beat each other to death and drive one another to insanity and suicide.I'm surprised anyone who claims to have been bored by author Jung Chang's descriptions of such horrific atrocities as "singing fountains", in which Red Guards split victims' heads open to entertain onlookers with the subsequent screaming and geysers of blood can read at all. Or maybe they miss the dramatic foreground music that prompts them to glance up from their cellphones in time to catch violent depictions on their wide-screen TVs.Jung Chang builds her story, an account of China's tumultuous history during the 20th century, around the lives of three generations of women - her grandmother, mother and herself, the "wild swans" of the title. Eventually allowed to leave her politically oppressive homeland for England as a visiting scholar, she began writing "Wild Swans" after a visit of several months from her mother. Finally free of the restrictions to talk about anything that might be perceived as showing China in a negative light, Jung Chang's mother starting telling her daughter things she'd bottled up most of her life. She talked almost nonstop, even when she couldn't be with her daughter. Jung Chang said her mother left some 60 hours of taped narrative before returning to China. I could go on for pages describing the horrors these women suffered and the incredible heroism they displayed under conditions brought about by the most wicked behavior the human species has ever displayed.This statement is bound to arouse suspicion that I'm a political shill or at least am exaggerating beyond reason, but from reading "Wild Swans" I can say with complete confidence that Mao Zedong was a genius of the most evil design ever seen on the planet. If only for the sheer magnitude of Mao's murderous subjugation of China's hundreds of millions, Hitler and Stalin were pipsqueaks in comparison. As Jung Chang observed, Hitler and Stalin relied on elites and secret police to enforce their totalitarian regimes. Mao cowed and brainwashed his subjects with cunning, bringing out their worst instincts toward service without question of his every whim. One consequence was the starvation of millions during a famine brought about solely by Mao's vanity and ignorance.My vague, naïve sense of China left me woefully unprepared for Jung Chang's deceptively dispassionate revelations. Her straightforward, uncontrived presentation, which has a diary feel at times, gives the horrors she describes a poignance that wrenches the heart. Not that all is ghastly and bleak. Alongside the indelible image of the "singing fountains" is her childhood remembrance of having deliberately swallowed an orange seed. A family member had warned her not to swallow the seeds or orange trees would grow out of her head. She admitted having trouble getting to sleep that night worrying about it.I prefer this memory to the other, although I know both will ever remain with me. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/158323984-wild-swans-three-daughters-of-china-paperback-august-12-2003](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/158323984-wild-swans-three-daughters-of-china-paperback-august-12-2003) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-06-03*