Jui jung chang biography
Jui jung chang biography
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Jung Chang
Chinese-British author (born )
Jung ChangCBE (traditional Chinese: 張戎; simplified Chinese: 张戎; pinyin: Zhāng Róng; Wade–Giles: Chang Jung, Mandarin pronunciation:[tʂɑ́ŋɻʊ̌ŋ]; born 25 March ) is a Chinese-born British author.
She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China.[3] Her page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June
Life in China
Chang was born on 25 March in Yibin, Sichuan as the second daughter and child of five children.
Her parents were both Chinese Communist Party officials, and her father was greatly interested in literature. As a child she quickly developed a love of reading and writing, which included composing poetry.
As Party cadres, life was relatively good for her family at first; her parents worked hard, and