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Wild SwansAn engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual look at the modern female experience, and an inspiring tale of courage and love.Read More
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Contactmusic, May 17, 2012
...five months while playing a writer suffering oppression in communist China. The British actress landed the role of Jung Chang in a stage version of the book Wild Swans, in which Chang details her family's life under a sparse Chinese regime. To give her...
Londonist, May 16, 2012
...leeks and fennel and marmalade cheesecake (£40). Catch Jeremy Paxman, Bettany Hughes, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Alain de Botton and Jung Chang at the Ways with Words festival in Holland Park (see website for times and prices). There’s free...
Telegraph, May 11, 2012
...festival - from Friday 18th-Sunday 20 May - will feature authors P.D. James, A.S. Byatt and Jung Chang, comedian Jimmy Carr and food writer Sophie Dahl. The event, staged within the theatre erected each year for Opera Holland Park's summer season, is the...
The Arts Desk, May 10, 2012
...Wales-based festival decamps to Central Europe for talks about China and Africa Share Jung Chang: 'her warning about China is uncompromising'Michela Rogers Four weeks ahead of its core event in the Welsh border town of Hay-on-Wye the world’s leading...
New Statesman, May 4, 2012
...up in Beirut” and considers the future of radio. Sophie Elmhirst talks to the Chinese author and historian Jung Chang in the NS Interview. In the Critics, the NS’s pop music writer Kate Mossman examines the musician Jack White (formerly of the...
Telegraph, May 4, 2012
...Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans who is at the Hay Festival Budapest, talks of her "full sympathy" for China dissident Chen Guangcheng. Jung Chang, the best-selling author of Wild Swans...
Telegraph, May 4, 2012
...Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans who is at the Hay Festival Budapest, talks of her "full sympathy" for China dissident Chen Guangcheng. Jung Chang, the best-selling author of Wild Swans...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, March 2, 2012
...In her stage adaptation of Jung Chang’s Wild Swans, Alexandra Wood has crafted a vivid portrait of the political turmoil and uncertainty surrounding Mao Zedong’s rule in China. Chang’s memoir, which spans a...
Harvard Crimson, February 29, 2012
...she takes the stage in the play “Wild Swans” at the American Repertory Theatre. The play, based on Jung Chang’s best-selling memoir, is being performed at the A.R.T. until March 11. Fifteen Minutes corresponded with the star of “Wild Swans”...
New American, February 28, 2012
...a professor who has specialized in this grisly work, estimated that 34 million Chinese died under his rule. Jung Chang — whose recent book, Mao: The Unknown Story, provides more details than that of any other analyst — sets the deaths caused by Mao...
New American, February 28, 2012
...a professor who has specialized in this grisly work, estimated that 34 million Chinese died under his rule. Jung Chang — whose recent book, Mao: The Unknown Story, provides more details than that of any other analyst — sets the deaths caused by Mao...
Hindustan Times, February 27, 2012
...refreshed for the daily grind. They are deeply psychological and affect our well-being in profound ways. Chinese writer Jung Chang, author of the worldwide bestseller Wild Swans, told me years ago in Delhi -— at the India International Centre,...
EdgeBoston.com, February 27, 2012
...The world premiere of " ," the memoir by Jung Chang about her family’s experiences throughout the advent of communism and the ensuing Chinese Cultural Revolution, comes to the stage at the American Repertory Theater. The story illustrates how...
New England Arts, February 24, 2012
...s production of “Wild Swans” offers spellbinding snapshots of China in the form of five acts. Based on Jung Chang’s bestselling memoir, the play uses metamorphic scene changes and a high-spirited cast to follow three generations of women who...
