Divok labut Changov Jung (2026)

This highly compelling autobiography by Chinese author Jung Chang, who has lived in Great Britain since 1978, combines a vivid, factual account of twentieth-century Chinese history, full of extraordinary upheavals, with the sober and modestly told yet moving personal histories of three generations of women in her family. The story begins with the fate of her grandmother, born in 1909 and the most beautiful girl in a small town, whose father married her off as a concubine to an old general in order to increase his prestige and gain wealth. It continues with the life of her mother, who became a Communist official, and culminates with the author herself, born in 1952, who, like the other members of her family, endured all the horrors and cruelties of the Cultural Revolution. She later studied English at university, received a British scholarship and became the first Chinese woman to earn a university PhD. She is now a successful author of several bestselling titles.