03726cam a2200325 i 4500 1261904345 TxAuBib 920528s1992||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 92019078 9780385425476 0385425473 (OCoLC)4603 DLC eng DLC NLGGC BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG XY4 IXA FMO KAAUA OKU OCLCF OCLCO OCLCQ TxAuBib rda Chang, Jung, 1952- Wild swans : three daughters of China / Jung Chang. 1st Anchor Books ed. New York : Anchor Books, 1992. 524 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier ""Anchor Worldviews books""--Half title page. Previously published: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Includes index. ""Three-Inch Golden Lilies"" concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933) -- ""Even Plain Cold Water Is Sweet"" my grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938) -- ""They All Say What a Happy Place Manchukuo Is"" life under the Japanese (1938-1945) -- ""Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own"" ruled by different masters (1945-1947) -- ""Daughter for Sale for 10 Kilos of Rice"" in battle for a new China (1947-1948) -- ""Talking about Love"" a revolutionary marriage (1948-1949) -- ""Going Through the Five Mountain Passes"" my mother's long march (1949-1950) -- ""Returning Home Robed in Embroidered Silk"" to family and bandits (1949-1951) -- ""When a Man Gets Power, Even His Chickens and Dogs Rise to Heaven"" living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953) -- ""Suffering Will Make you a Better Communist"" my mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956) -- ""After the Anti-Rightist Campaign No One Opens Their Mouth"" China silenced (1956-1958) -- ""Capable Women Can Make a Meal without Food"" famine (1958-1962) -- ""Thousand-Gold Little Precious"" in a privileged cocoon (1958-1965) -- ""Father Is Close, Mother Is Close, but Neither Is as Close as Chairman Mao"" the Cult of Mao (1964-1965) -- ""Destroy First, and Construction Will Look After Itself"" the cultural revolution begins (1965-1966) -- ""Soar to Heaven, and Pierce the Earth"" Mao's red guards (June-August 1966) -- ""Do You Want Our Children to Become Blacks?"" my parents' dilemma (August-October 1966) -- ""More Than Gigantic Wonderful News"" pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966) -- ""Where There is a Will to Condemn, There is Evidence"" my parents tormented (December 1966-1967) -- I Will Not Sell My Soul"" my father arrested (1967-1968) -- ""Giving Charcoal in Snow"" my siblings and my friends (1967-1968) -- ""Thought Reform through Labor"" to the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969) -- ""The More Books You Read, the More Stupid You Become"" I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971) -- ""Please Accept My Apologies That Come a Lifetime Too Late"" my parents in camps (1969-1972) -- ""The Fragrance of Sweet Wind"" a new life with the electricians' manual and six crises (1972-1973) -- ""Sniffing after Foreigners' Farts and Calling Them Sweet"" learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974) -- If This Is Paradise, What Then Is Hell?"" the death of my father (1974-1976) -- Fighting to take wing (1976-1978) -- Epilogue -- Index. A Chinese woman chronicles the struggle of her grandmother, her mother, and herself to survive in a China torn apart by wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval, from 1907 to the present. Chang, Jung 1952- China Biography. Biography.