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Wild Swans

by Jung Chang

1991 · historical fiction · adult

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Set in 3 places · 1 primary
Sense of Place
4/5
Description · Open Library (CC0)

"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.

Set in

  • ★
    Yibin · China
    author birthplace family home
    ★ primary
  • Chengdu · China
    Sichuan University, famine scenes
  • Jinzhou · China
    grandmothers Manchurian home