Jung Chang | Jung Chang is the author of the best-selling book Wild Swans - Three Daughters of China, which the Asia Wall Street Journal called the most read book about China in the world. Her next work: Mao: The Unknown Story (co-written with Jon Halliday) was described by Time magazine as "An atom bomb of a book." Each book has been translated into more than 30 languages, and together sold some 15 million copies. Among the many awards Jung Chang has won are the UK Writers' Guild Best Non-Fiction (1992) and Book of the Year UK (1993). She has received honorary doctorates from a number of Universities in the UK and USA.
Jung Chang was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) she worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot' doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student. She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 1982 at the University of York - the first person from Communist China to receive a doctorate from a British university.
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