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Juni Chang

    Jung Chang crafts compelling narratives that often delve into intricate family histories and significant historical moments. Her distinctive writing style is renowned for its vividness and depth, exploring the inner lives of her characters and the echoes of the past. Chang's work illuminates the human experience against the backdrop of sweeping societal changes, offering readers a profound understanding of history and personal sacrifice. Her stories are a powerful testament to resilience and the enduring quest for identity.

    Fliegt, Wilde Schwäne
    Mao: The Unknown Story
    Wild swans. Three daughters of China
    • Fliegt, Wilde Schwäne

      China, meine Mutter und ich - Die lange erwartete Fortsetzung des Weltbestsellers Wilde Schwäne - Der Sunday-Times-Bestseller

      • 384 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      35 Jahre nach dem Weltbesteller Wilde Schwäne erscheint die lange erwartete Fortsetzung 40 Jahre 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. Ausstattung: mit Bildteil

      Fliegt, Wilde Schwäne2026
    • Wild swans. Three daughters of China

      • 736 pages
      • 26 hours of reading

      The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord’s concubine; her mother’s struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents’ experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a “barefoot doctor,” a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and ultimately uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

      Wild swans. Three daughters of China2021
      4.3
    • Mao: The Unknown Story

      • 832 pages
      • 30 hours of reading

      This biography 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 1920's. Mao conquered China in 1949 and his goal was to dominate the world. in chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, well over 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rule in peacetime

      Mao: The Unknown Story2006
      3.8