Jung Chang

Chinese-British author — author of Wild Swans (on her family's three generations through 20th century China) and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday) — who produced the most widely read account of the Cultural Revolution from a survivor's perspective.

Creates the inside account of Mao's China — Wild Swans traces three generations of a Chinese family (grandmother as warlord's concubine, mother as Communist revolutionary, Jung Chang during the Cultural Revolution) in a way that makes China's 20th century emotionally comprehensible to Western readers.