China Book Club: 'Wild Swans' by Jung Chang

'Wild Swans' tells the story of three generations of women in Jung Chang's own family. These are the grandmother who was a concubine with bound feet, the mother who fought the Japanese and then for the Communists in the civil war, and finally the author herself. This book reveals the epic history of China's twentieth century, and was one of the earliest books published in English to reveal the brutal realities of Maoist China.