![]() ![]() Then, in 1988, Chang’s mother, De-hong, went to London for a long visit. in linguistics from York University, becoming the first person from the People’s Republic of China to obtain a doctorate from a British university. On a recent sultry afternoon, Chang was relaxing at a friend’s rustic Brentwood estate as she described her life and the events that spurred her to write “Wild Swans.”Ĭhang had left China in 1978 when she received permission to study in England. ![]() ![]() The three daughters of China are Chang’s grandmother, who was sold as a concubine to a Manchu warlord her mother, who became a member of the Communist underground, spied on the Nationalist Army and married a Communist guerrilla fighter, and Chang, who came of age during the tumultuous decade of the Cultural Revolution and served briefly as a Red Guard before being exiled to the countryside. ![]()
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