Wild Swans

Jedes Kind in China kennt die Geschichte der drei Schwestern aus Shanghai, die die Geschicke Chinas im 20. Jahrhundert von den Zentren der Macht aus mitbestimmten. Man sagte über sie: Eine liebte das Geld, eine liebte die Macht, und eine liebte ihr Land. Alle drei genossen Privilegien, Ruhm und Reichtum, wurden aber auch angefeindet und sahen sich tödlichen Gefahren ausgesetzt. Sie zeigten Mut, erlebten stürmische Liebe, aber auch große Verzweiflung. 'Die drei Schwestern' ist ein fesselndes Epos über Liebe, Krieg, Exil, Intrigen, Glamour und Verrat. Jung Chang erzählt die Leben dreier außergewöhnlicher Frauen nach, die China im 20. Jahrhundert maßgeblich prägten.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATIONA Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times'A must-read ... magnificent'DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'Beautiful and moving'ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVERJung 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 mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future.China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best.'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*<BR><BR>Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese history; a gripping story of sisterhood and betrayal from the bestselling author of Wild Swans.<BR><BR>They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled seismic transformations these three women left an indelible mark on history. <BR><BR> Red Sister rose to be Mao's vice-chair. <BR> Little Sister became first lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China. <BR> Big Sister made herself one of country's richest women. <BR><BR> Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister takes us on a sweeping journey from exiles' quarters in Japan and Berlin to secret meeting rooms in Moscow, and from the compounds of the Communist elite in Beijing to the corridors of power in democratic Taiwan. By turns intimate and epic, Jung Chang reveals the lives of three extraordinary women who helped shape twentieth-century China.

Der Weltbestseller als NeuausgabeWer das moderne China von heute verstehen möchte, kommt an diesem Buch nicht vorbei: Jung Changs Weltbestseller 'Wilde Schwäne' hat seit seinem Erscheinen im Jahr 1991 13 Millionen Leser begeistert und die Geschichte Chinas von der Kaiserzeit bis zur Herrschaft Maos und seiner Nachfolger in einer Art und Weise zugänglich gemacht, die es bis dahin nicht gab. Anhand der Biografien von drei Generationen von Frauen - ihrer Großmutter, die als Konkubine an einen Kriegsherrn gegeben wurde, ihrer kommunistischen Mutter und schließlich ihrer eigenen - enthüllt Jung Chang die epische Geschichte Chinas im 20. Jahrhundert. Atemberaubend in seinem Umfang und unvergesslich in seinen Beschreibungen ist dieses Buch Klassiker des erzählenden Sachbuchs.

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans<BR><BR> 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.<BR><BR> Packed with drama, fast-paced and gripping, it is both a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern China and an intimate portrait of a woman: as the concubine to a monarch, as the absolute ruler of a third of the world's population, and as a unique stateswoman.<BR><BR> 'Powerful' Simon Sebag Montefiore<BR> <BR> 'Truly authoritative' New York Times<BR> <BR> 'Wonderful' Sunday Times<BR> <BR> **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Biography Prize**

Über drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Weltbesteller Wilde Schwäne erscheint die lange erwartete FortsetzungÜber drei Jahrzehnte nach dem Erscheinen ihrer chinesischen Familienchronik 'Wilde Schwäne' legt Jung Chang die lange erwartete Fortsetzung des legendären Weltbestsellers vor: In 'Fliegt, Wilde Schwäne' erzählt sie die Geschichte ihrer Familie - und damit auch die Geschichte Chinas - vom Ende der Mao-Ära und vom Beginn der Reformen unter Deng XiaoPing bis in die Gegenwart Xi Jinpings weiter: China hat sich von einem heruntergekommenen und isolierten Staat zu einer Weltmacht entwickelt, die die Vormachtstellung der Vereinigten Staaten herausfordert. Während dieser Jahrzehnte war Jung Changs Leben eng mit ihrem Heimatland verflochten. Ihre Erfahrungen waren reichhaltig und komplex - insbesondere, weil ihre Bücher in China verboten waren und immer noch sind. Eine ergreifende Familiengeschichte und zugleich ein bespielloses Portrait des modernen Chinas."Wunderschön und bewegend ... Chang verwebt ihre eigene Geschichte mit der ihrer Mutter und beleuchtet dabei gekonnt den Wandel, den die gesamte Nation durchlaufen hat. [Sie] schreckt nicht davor zurück, die Probleme des Regimes anzusprechen, und bringt gleichzeitig ihre Liebe zur Kultur und zu den Menschen zum Ausdruck. Sie beweist außergewöhnlichen Mut, auch wenn dies mit Risiken für sie selbst und ihre Familie verbunden ist. Fast ein halbes Jahrhundert später hat Chang mit der gleichen unerschütterlichen Entschlossenheit eine Fortsetzung zu Wilde Schwäne verfasst, die sich jedoch auch unabhängig davon hervorragend lesen lässt." - Elif Shafak, ObserverAusstattung: mit Bildteil

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATIONA Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times'A must-read ... magnificent'DAILY TELEGRAPH *****'Beautiful and moving'ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVERJung 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 mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future.China is now at another watershed moment with the era of Chairman Xi Jinping greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Fly, Wild Swans is Jung's heartfelt response to that experience, and a book filled with drama, love, curiosity and incredible history - both personal and global. Ultimately uplifting, told in Jung's clear, honest and compelling voice, it is memoir writing at its best.'Profoundly revealing as a portrait both of a family and of the deeper traumas that lie at the heart of modern China' RORY STEWART'Another wonder book from Jung Chang...I am quite blown away by it' LADY ANTONIA FRASER