Jung Chang
Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British author, best known for her family autobiography "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China." Born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952, she experienced the Cultural Revolution, working various jobs before studying English. She moved to Britain in 1978 and earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of York, becoming the first person from Communist China to receive a doctorate from a British university. Her works, which include biographies of Mao Zedong and Empress Dowager Cixi, have been translated into over 40 languages and have sold millions of copies worldwide, though they are banned in China. Chang has received numerous awards and honorary doctorates for her contributions to literature and history.
Awards
['CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) for services to literature and to history', "UK Writers' Guild Best Non-Fiction", 'Book of the Year UK', 'Honorary doctorates from Buckingham, York, Warwick, Dundee, the Open University, University of West London, and Bowdoin College']
Notable Works
['Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China', 'Mao: The Unknown Story', 'Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China', 'Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China', 'Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China']
