Jung Chang

Despues de 10 años, sigue siento el libro más vendido de la editorial.Una abuela, una madre, una hija. A lo largo de esta saga, tan verídica como espeluznante, tres mujeres luchan por sobrevivir en una China sometida a guerras, invasiones y revoluciones. La abuela de la autora nacio en 1909, epoca en la que China era aun una sociedad feudal. Sus pies permanecieron vendados desde niña, y a los quince años de edad se convirtio en concubina de uno de los numerosos señores de la guerra.

La esperada secuela del fenómeno Cisnes salvajes, con 15.000.000 de lectores en 40 idiomas: un retrato de China que sigue las emocionantes vidas de tres generaciones de mujeres Uno de los mejores lib

La esperada secuela del fenómeno Cisnes salvajes, con 15.000.000 de lectores en 40 idiomas: un retrato de China que sigue las emocionantes vidas de tres generaciones de mujeresUno de los mejores libros del año segun The Guardian, The Times, Telegraph, The Financial Times y The Sunday Times Bello y conmovedor [...]. Chang vuelve a escribir con una determinacion inquebrantable.Elif Shafak, The ObserverCisnes salvajes marco a toda una generacion con la historia epica de tres hijas de la China del siglo XX. Comenzaba en 1909, bajo el ultimo emperador, con el nacimiento de la abuela de Jung Chang, que se convirtio en concubina a los quince años, y recorria las vidas de tres generaciones de mujeres hasta la muerte de Mao Zedong y la llegada al poder de Deng Xiaoping. Casi medio siglo despues, China ha pasado de ser un Estado arcaico y aislado a convertirse en una potencia mundial con Xi Jinping, que la ha transformado en un regimen comunista con rasgos capitalistas. Jung Chang, que fue miembro de la Guardia Roja, campesina, obrera siderurgica y electricista hasta convertirse en estudiante de Lenguas Extranjeras y profesora ayudante en la Universidad de Sichuan, huyo a Occidente y fue la primera persona de la Republica Popular China en doctorarse en una universidad britanica. En esta secuela, lleva la historia de su familia y la de su pais de origen hasta la actualidad, y, siguiendo su vida y la de su madre, construye un relato envolvente, conmovedor y dificil de olvidar sobre las dificultades que entraña el hecho de vivir en una dictadura comunista y sobre las amenazas que la China moderna plantea al orden mundial. Un libro que rebosa humanidad, amor, valentia y dignidad de la mano de una autora cuyos libros siguen prohibidos en su pais natal.La critica ha dicho: Jung Chang nos lleva por la fascinante y emocionante historia familiar y nos apunta el contexto politico de China en un texto que se lee con ganas. Mey Zamora, La VanguardiaEdificante y desgarrador, un libro dificil de olvidar.Publishers Weekly Una valiosa vision sobre la complejidad de establecer la identidad familiar y personal viviendo en un Estado que necesita de una historia estancada e inamovible. Rana Mitter, Literary Review Una prosa que se lee con deleite. Incluso cuando las victimas no tienen voz, Chang encuentra ese detalle que rompe con el silencio y nos descubre la verdad. Max Liu, The i paper Pocos pueden igualar la habilidad de Chang para dar vida a la historia y a la politica china con un relato profundamente personal; tambien han sido pocos los que han moldeado la concepcion occidental de China como ella. Isabel Hilton, The Skinny (The Guardian) Cautivara a los fans de la entrega anterior [...]. Vuelan los cisnes salvajes es un reflejo y una critica de la China de Xi Jinping [...] y un testimonio de la dedicacion a su madre y el amor familiar que resiste a las fronteras. Frieda Klotz, Irish IndependentUn tributo a su inquebrantable madre y un poderoso retrato de la censure y la actitud cambiante de la China de Xi Jinping[...], lleno de imagenes conmovedoras de su historia familiar y de jugosos episodios de su vida literaria bajo la atenta mirada del Est...

Tres mujeres (abuela, madre e hija) luchan por sobrevivir en una China sometida a violentas guerras, invasiones, revoluciones y perpetua agitación a lo largo de una saga verídica que abarca todo el s

La biografía definitiva de Mao Zedong.«Este libro es una bombaatómica.»Donald Morrison, Time«Una obra magistral. Esta magnífica biografía destruye metódicamente cada pilar de las reivindicaciones de

Una abuela, una madre, una hija. A lo largo de esta saga, tan verídica como espeluznante, tres mujeres luchan por sobrevivir en una China sometida a guerras, invasiones y revoluciones. La abuela de la autora nacion en 1909, epoca en la que China era aun una sociedad feudal. Sus pies permanecieron vendados desde niña, y a los quince años de edad se convirtio en concubina de uno de los numerosos señores de la guerra. Sesenta y nueva años despues, su nieta abandono el pais.

This is from the bestselling author of Wild Swans and Mao: The Unknown Story. In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi - the most important woman in Chinese history - brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like 'death by a thousand cuts' and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively overturns the conventional view of Cixi as a diehard conservative and cruel despot and also takes the reader into the depths of her splendid Summer Palace and the harem of Beijing's Forbidden City, where she lived surrounded by eunuchs - with one of whom she fell in love, with tragic consequences.

Jung Chang's WILD SWANS was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him - this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. Combining meticulous history with the story-telling style of WILD SWANS, this biography makes immediate Mao's roller-coaster life, as he intrigued and fought every step of the way to force through his unpopular decisions. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao's court, and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao's character and the enormity of his behaviour towards his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time. This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike.

An international bestseller with over three million copies in print, this is the story of three generations, mostly of women, in a Chinese family.

Cisnes salvajes de Jung Chang, fue un extraordinario éxito editorial, con diez millones de ejemplares vendidos, y se convirtió en el libro sobre China más leído en todo el mundo. Ahora, Chang y el historiador Jon Halliday, su marido, han escrito una biografia de Mao realmente sobrecogedora. Basada en diez años de investigaciones y en las entrevistas realizadas a muchas de las figuras que se movieron en los circulos mas cercanos a Mao y que hasta ahora no habian hablado; y con casi todo aquel que, fuera de China, mantuvo alguna relacion significativa con el lider chino, esta es la biografia de Mao mas seria y autorizada que se ha escrito. Esta repleta de revelaciones sorprendentes, hace añicos el mito de la Larga Marcha y nos presenta a un Mao totalmente desconocido: no le impulsaban la ideologia ni el idealismo; su intima e intrincada relacion con Stalin se remonta a los años veinte y fue decisiva para alzarle al poder; saludo con buenos ojos la ocupacion japonesa de buena parte de China y labro su camino por medio de conjuras, chantajes y envenenamientos. Despues de conquistar China, a partir de 1949 tuvo el secreto objetivo de dominar el mundo. En la persecucion de esta fantasia causaria la muerte de 38 millones de personas en la mayor hambruna de la historia. En conjunto, bajo el gobierno de Mao perecieron, en tiempos de paz, mas de 70 millones de seres humanos. Combinando una meticulosa investigacion historica con las extraordinarias facultades literarias que la autora ya demostro en Cisnes salvajes, esta biografia nos traslada a la vertiginosa vida de Mao, a las intrigas y las luchas intestinas en que se embarco; para imponer sus impopulares decisiones. La autora nos lleva a las sombrias estancias de su corte y nos deja observar el drama hasta en los rincones mas reconditos.

Based on a decade of meticulous research and on unprecedented interviews with Chairman Mao's inner circle and virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him, this authoritative biography will radically change readers' understanding of one of the major political figures of the 20th century. 32 pages of photos & maps.

A new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author. The publication of Wild Swans in 1991 was a worldwide phenomenon. Not only did it become the best-selling non-fiction book in British publishing history, with sales of well over two million, it was received with unanimous critical acclaim, and was named the winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award. Few books have ever had such an impact on their readers. Through the story of three generations of women -- grandmother, mother and daughter -- Wild Swans tells nothing less than the whole tumultuous history of China's tragic twentieth century, from sword-bearing warlords to Chairman Mao, from the Manchu Empire to the Cultural Revolution. At times terrifying, at times astonishing, always deeply moving, Wild Swans is a book in a million, a true story with all the passion and grandeur of a great novel. For this new edition, Jung Chang has written a new introduction, bringing her own story up to date, and describing the effect Wild Swans' success has had on her life.

Jung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him - this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao: he was not driven by idealism or ideology; his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went back to the 1920s, ultimately bringing him to power; he welcomed Japanese occupation of much of China; and he schemed, poisoned and blackmailed to get his way. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. Combining meticulous history with the story-telling style of Wild Swans, this biography makes immediate Mao's roller-coaster life, as he intrigued and fought every step of the way to force through his unpopular decisions. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao's court, and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao's character and the enormity of his behaviour towards his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time. This is an entirely fresh look at Mao in both content and approach. It will astonish historians and the general reader alike.

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 in 1909 with her grandmother s birth and foot binding when China was under the last emperor moving through Mao Zedong s rule especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung s parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 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 global 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 dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing especially so because all her books were and are banned Fly Wild Swans is the follow up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung s family along with that of China up to date The book is in many ways Jung s love letter to her

Nesta sequência de Cisnes selvagens, Jung Chang continua a traçar a história da China moderna sob o prisma das mulheres de sua família: ela própria, que se estabeleceu no Reino Unido no fim dos anos