THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATIONJung Chang-s Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - -three daughters of China-. The book opens with her grandmother-s birth - and foot binding - in 1909, when China was under the last emperor, through Mao Zedong-s rule and the Cultural Revolution during which Jung-s parents were subject to unbelievable ordeals. It finishes in 1978 when the Mao era officially ended, and Deng Xiaoping started the post-Mao -Reforms-. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West.Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power, the challenger to the United States- dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung-s life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences in those years were rich and complex - es
