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Jung Chang. Wild Swans
WILD. SWANS
JUNG CHANG
Copyright
Praise
Dedication
Contents
Family Tree
Chronology
Author’s Note
MAP
1 ‘Three-Inch Golden Lilies’
2 ‘Even Plain Cold Water Is Sweet’
3 ‘They All Say What a Happy Place Manchukuo Is’
4 ‘Slaves Who Have No Country of Your Own’
5 ‘Daughter for Sale for 10 Kilos of Rice’
6 ‘Talking about Love’
7 ‘Going through the Five Mountain Passes’
8 ‘Returning Home Robed in Embroidered Silk’
Plates Section 1
9 ‘When a Man Gets Power, Even His Chickens and Dogs Rise to Heaven’
10 ‘Suffering Will Make You a Better Communist’
11 ‘After the Anti-Rightist Campaign No One Opens Their Mouth’
12 ‘Capable Women Can Make a Meal without Food’
13 ‘Thousand-Gold Little Precious’
14 ‘Father Is Close, Mother Is Close, but Neither Is as Close as Chairman Mao’
15 ‘Destroy First, and Construction Will Look After Itself’
16 ‘Soar to Heaven, and Pierce the Earth’
17 ‘Do You Want Our Children to Become “Blacks”?’
18 ‘More Than Gigantic Wonderful News’
19 ‘Where There Is a Will to Condemn, There Is Evidence’
20 ‘I Will Not Sell My Soul’
Plates Section 2
21 ‘Giving Charcoal in Snow’
22 ‘Thought Reform through Labour’
23 ‘The More Books You Read, the More Stupid You Become’
24 ‘Please Accept My Apologies That Come a Lifetime Too Late’
25 ‘The Fragrance of Sweet Wind’
26 ‘Sniffing after Foreigners’ Farts and Calling Them Sweet’
27 ‘If This Is Paradise, What Then Is Hell?’
28 ‘Fighting to Take Wing’
Epilogue
Afterword
Index
Acknowledgments
About the Author
About the Publisher
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Three Daughters of China
COLIN THUBRON, Spectator
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In the meantime my grandmother was caught up in the renewed fighting. Control of the northeast was vital in the struggle between the warlord armies, and towns on the railway, especially junctions like Yixian, were particular targets. Shortly after General Xue left, the fighting came right up to the walls of the town, with pitched battles just outside the gates. Looting was widespread. One Italian arms company appealed to the cash-strapped warlords by advertising that it would accept ‘lootable villages’ as collateral. Rape was just as commonplace. Like many other women, my grandmother had to blacken her face with soot to make herself look filthy and ugly. Fortunately, this time Yixian emerged virtually unscathed. The fighting eventually moved south and life returned to normal.
For my grandmother, ‘normal’ meant finding ways to kill time in her large house. The house was built in the typical North Chinese style, around three sides of a quadrangle, the south side of the courtyard being a wall about seven feet high, with a moon gate which opened onto an outer courtyard, which in turn was guarded by a double gate with a round brass knocker.
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