Jung Chang: Fly, Wild Swans. My Mother, Myself and China

Fly, Wild Swans is the long-awaited sequel to Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, a book that defined a generation through an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother – ‘three daughters of China’. Wild Swans took us from her grandmother’s birth in 1909 under the last emperor to the end of the Mao era in 1978 with Jung’s emigration to Britain. At the time she was one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West. Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit, isolated state to a global power. Through those decades, Jung’s life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Fly, Wild Swans is the sequel and brings the story of Jung’s family – along with that of China – up to date.  

Jung will be in conversation with journalist Deirdre O’Shaughnessy