Empress
Dowager Cixi

The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

A New York Times Notable Book

Waterstone’s Book of the Month, July 2014

Cover image of Wild Swans Hong Kong Edition

Praise for Jung Chang

“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

‘“Wild Swans” made me feel like a five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social history.”Martin Amis, Independent on Sunday

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News & Events

Book tour dates:

Sat 5 July, 3.30pm
Jung Chang talks to Peter Florence Hay Ireland
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Wed 30 July, 6.30pm
Waterstones Event Bristol
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Sun 10 Aug, 1.30pm
Edinburgh International Book Festival
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See the Links page for TV interviews.

About Jung Chang

Jung Chang at a gate of the Forbidden City where Empress Dowager Cixi lived.

Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans, which The Asian Wall Street Journal called the most widely read book about China, and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time as “an atom bomb of a book.”
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