Jung wild swans7/6/2023 Chang’s mother becomes a dedicated member of Mao’s Communist Party, and she and her husband must routinely demonstrate their loyalty to the Party above their family.ĭuring a strenuous six-month journey, she walks alongside her higher-ranking husband’s jeep even though she is pregnant. Her grandmother’s feet are bound as a baby to secure her future as a general’s low-ranking concubine, answerable to the general’s wife. But before reading WILD SWANS, I had never actually put together the wrenching swiftness of the cultural changes in China.Ĭhung’s memoir tells the story of three generations of women in her family. Like many people, I have been fascinated by Chinese culture intermittently, inspired by a book, a film, or perhaps a painting, to learn more about one so different from my own. WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA was on the curriculum and he recommended it to me. It was one of those magic classes where teachers and students alike were excited and eager to learn and share new ideas. My father, a physics professor at our local college in Durango, Colorado, started co-teaching a new World Humanities class with a philosopher and a historian. I first read WILD SWANS by Jung Chang shortly after it came out in 1991.
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