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Wild swans : three daughters of China / Jung Chang.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : HarperCollins, 1992Copyright date: ©1991Edition: Special overseas editionDescription: 696 pages : portraits ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0006374921
  • 9780006374923
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.05092 22
Contents:
1. "Three-Inch Golden Lilies": Concubine to a Warlord General (1909-1933) -- 2. "Even Plain Cold Water Is Sweet": My Grandmother Marries a Manchu Doctor (1933-1938) -- 3. "They All Say What a Happy Place Manchukuo Is": Life under the Japanese (1938-1945) -- 4. "Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own": Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947) -- 5. "Daughter for Sale for 10 Kilos of Rice": In Battle for a New China (1947-1948) -- 6. "Talking about Love": A Revolutionary Marriage (1948-1949) -- 7. "Going through the Five Mountain Passes": My Mother's Long March (1949-1950) -- 8. "Returning Home Robed in Embroidered Silk": To Family and Bandits (1949-1951) -- 9. "When a Man Gets Power, Even His Chickens and Dogs Rise to Heaven": Living with an Incorruptible Man (1951-1953) -- 10. "Suffering Will Make You a Better Communist": My Mother Falls under Suspicion (1953-1956) -- 11. "After the Anti-Rightist Campaign No One Opens Their Mouth": China Silenced (1956-1958) -- 12. "Capable Women Can Make a Meal without Food": Famine (1958-1962) -- 13. "Thousand-Gold Little Precious": In a Privileged Cocoon (1958-1965) -- 14. "Father Is Close, Mother Is Close, but Neither Is as Close as Chairman Mao": The Cult of Mao (1964-1965) -- 15. "Destroy First, and Construction Will Look After Itself": The Cultural Revolution Begins (1965-1966) -- 16. "Soar to Heaven, and Pierce the Earth": Mao's Red guards (June-August 1966) -- 17. "Do You Want Our Children to Become 'Blacks'?": My Parents' Dilemma (August-October 1966) -- 18. "More Than Gigantic Wonderful News": Pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966) -- 19. "Where There Is a Will to Condemn, There Is Evidence": My Parents Tormented (December 1966-1967) -- 20. "I Will Not Sell My Soul": My Father Arrested (1967-1968) -- 21. "Giving Charcoal in Snow": My Siblings and My Friends (1967-1968) -- 22. "Thought Reform through Labor": To the Edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969) -- 23. "The More Books You Read, the More Stupid You Become": I Work as a Peasant and a Barefoot Doctor (June 1969-1971) -- 24. "Please Accept My Apologies That Come a Lifetime Too Late": My Parents in Camps (1969-1972) -- 25. "The Fragrance of Sweet Wind": A New Life with The Electricians' Manual and Six Crises (1972-1973) -- 26. "Sniffing after Foreigners' Farts and Calling Them Sweet": Learning English in Mao's Wake (1972-1974) -- 27. "If This Is Paradise, What Then Is Hell?": The Death of My Father (1974-1976) -- 28. Fighting to Take Wing (1976-1978).
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Includes index.

1. "Three-Inch Golden Lilies": Concubine to a Warlord General (1909-1933) -- 2. "Even Plain Cold Water Is Sweet": My Grandmother Marries a Manchu Doctor (1933-1938) -- 3. "They All Say What a Happy Place Manchukuo Is": Life under the Japanese (1938-1945) -- 4. "Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own": Ruled by Different Masters (1945-1947) -- 5. "Daughter for Sale for 10 Kilos of Rice": In Battle for a New China (1947-1948) -- 6. "Talking about Love": A Revolutionary Marriage (1948-1949) -- 7. "Going through the Five Mountain Passes": My Mother's Long March (1949-1950) -- 8. "Returning Home Robed in Embroidered Silk": To Family and Bandits (1949-1951) -- 9. "When a Man Gets Power, Even His Chickens and Dogs Rise to Heaven": Living with an Incorruptible Man (1951-1953) -- 10. "Suffering Will Make You a Better Communist": My Mother Falls under Suspicion (1953-1956) -- 11. "After the Anti-Rightist Campaign No One Opens Their Mouth": China Silenced (1956-1958) -- 12. "Capable Women Can Make a Meal without Food": Famine (1958-1962) -- 13. "Thousand-Gold Little Precious": In a Privileged Cocoon (1958-1965) -- 14. "Father Is Close, Mother Is Close, but Neither Is as Close as Chairman Mao": The Cult of Mao (1964-1965) -- 15. "Destroy First, and Construction Will Look After Itself": The Cultural Revolution Begins (1965-1966) -- 16. "Soar to Heaven, and Pierce the Earth": Mao's Red guards (June-August 1966) -- 17. "Do You Want Our Children to Become 'Blacks'?": My Parents' Dilemma (August-October 1966) -- 18. "More Than Gigantic Wonderful News": Pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966) -- 19. "Where There Is a Will to Condemn, There Is Evidence": My Parents Tormented (December 1966-1967) -- 20. "I Will Not Sell My Soul": My Father Arrested (1967-1968) -- 21. "Giving Charcoal in Snow": My Siblings and My Friends (1967-1968) -- 22. "Thought Reform through Labor": To the Edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969) -- 23. "The More Books You Read, the More Stupid You Become": I Work as a Peasant and a Barefoot Doctor (June 1969-1971) -- 24. "Please Accept My Apologies That Come a Lifetime Too Late": My Parents in Camps (1969-1972) -- 25. "The Fragrance of Sweet Wind": A New Life with The Electricians' Manual and Six Crises (1972-1973) -- 26. "Sniffing after Foreigners' Farts and Calling Them Sweet": Learning English in Mao's Wake (1972-1974) -- 27. "If This Is Paradise, What Then Is Hell?": The Death of My Father (1974-1976) -- 28. Fighting to Take Wing (1976-1978).

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