Winner of the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year Award.
To my grandmother and my father who did not live to see this book
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard
briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a \'barefoot doctor," a
steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later,
an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was
subsequently aw`````
To my grandmother and my father who did not live to see this book
Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a Red Guard
briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a \'barefoot doctor," a
steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student and, later,
an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was
subsequently aw`````