1991 1991 Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China

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First Edition, Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

The first edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding, with the original clipped dust wrapper. A map of China bound into the front of the volume. 16 plates of photographs. Collated complete. Jung Chang's best selling biographical account of life in China from three women; her grandmother, her mother, and herself, over the span of a century. This take on Chinese history tells the often untold experiences of women in the late 19th and 20th century. Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year, and has been translated into 37 different languages.