Jung Chang

Jung Chang awarded CBE for services to Literature and to History:

Wild Swans author Jung Chang awarded CBE for services to literature | The Independent

Reviews for, ‘Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China’

‘Fly, Wild Swans is another wonder book from Jung Chang. Elegiac and beautifully written, I am quite blown away by it’ —Lady Antonia Fraser

‘Few can match Chang’s ability to bring Chinese history and politics to life through deeply felt personal narrative, and few have shaped western understanding of China as broadly. Nearly 35 years on from the book that made her name, this story of suffering and success has the air of a closing chapter, a reckoning with both her achievements and the cost of the path she chose’ —The Guardian

‘Readers cherish Chang’s books for offering glimpses of a vast and opaque nation. Fly, Wild Swans again demonstrates Chang’s ability to explore subject matter of significant weight in prose that is a pleasure to read’ —The I Paper

‘Packed with poignant snapshots of family history and juicy episodes of literary life under state scrutiny … the follow-up to her 1991 bestseller is both a tribute to her uncrushable mother and a powerful portrait of censorship and shifting attitudes in Xi’s China’ —Financial Times

‘A testament to her dedication to her mother, and to family love that persists despite barriers. It will captivate fans of Chang’s earlier work’ —Irish Independent

‘Painful. Astonishing. Honest. Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China’ —Rory Stewart

‘Jung Chang’s powerful and profoundly moving sequel to Wild Swans has been well worth the wait. Her and her remarkable mother’s story since the end of Wild Swans intertwines fascinatingly with that of national socialist modern China, with their love-filled human story threatened by hideous Communist oppression, all over again. Threatened, but because of their bravery and evident decency, never crushed’ —Andrew Roberts

‘Far more than a sequel, Fly Wild Swans is the elegiac account by Jung Chang of the literary life that made her famous and the price she has paid for being a loyal daughter’ —Michael Sheridan 

Links:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/fly-wild-swans-jung-chang-sequel-review/

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/fly-wild-swans-my-mother-myself-china-jung-chang-review-zxndbtg6l

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/15/fly-wild-swans-by-jung-chang-review-a-daughter-of-china-speaks-again?CMP=share_btn_url

Wild Swans Jung Chang: ‘My mother is dying in China, but my writing has made it too dangerous to visit her’ | The Independent

Fly, Wild Swans — Jung Chang brings her epic memoir up to date – The Financial Times

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Woman’s Hour – Jung Chang – BBC Sounds

‘China can’t be dragged to the bad old days,’ says Chinese-British author Jung Chang – Channel 4 News

‘Wild Swans’ is the Sunday Times Bestsellers 8th most popular book in the past 50 years!

You can read the Sunday Times article online using the link below: 

https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/jung-chang-wild-swans-interview-9hg05lvt0

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