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Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British writer that is known for her award-winning book, Wild Swans. After having several jobs at a young age, Jung Chang became an English-language student, and an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. In 1978, Chang left China for Britain, where the University of York awarded her a scholarship. At the university, she acquired a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982. Interestingly, Chang was the first person from the People’s Republic of China to obtain a doctorate from a

rule of China. The book is organized by the history of the family and China. It goes both through the story of China and her family. It shows the progression of China through the lives of her family and her. Each chapter of Wild Swans contributes to Chang 's main point by stacking one idea on another. One event leads to another. For example, the Chinese were treated terribly under the role of the Japanese. After Japan lost World War II, Soviet and Mongolian troops entered China.1 This lead the Chinese

Michael Accurso The book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, is a intimate memoir and a piece of history that shows life through generations. This book shows us the change and evolution of China through the lives of three women. Allow me to give a brief synopsis of who these women are so that it is easier to understand the story. The first woman that we live through is Yu Fang. Yu Fang’s father is looking for a way out of their miserable life so he arranges for her to be a concubine

morning friends, family and all those of you who are here today to celebrate the life of a great man, Victor Chang. Before I begin, I would like to offer my deepest sympathies to the Chang family for their unfortunate loss. This was a senseless and wasteful murder of such an innocent man. When I remember Victor, three words come to mind; Compassion, talent and persistence. Victor Chang, born on the 25 November 1936 in Shanghai, China was a very talented and naturally gifted person. Victor moved

Growing up with immigrant parents can be tough on a child. Chang-Rae Lee has experienced it first hand with his mother only speaking Hangul and his father speaking English but working every day. At the age of three Chang-Rae Lee was brought to New York along with his mother and older sister. He went to Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. After the academy, he attended Yale and received a B. A. in English. Native Speaker, his first novel, circles around a Korean American spy Henry Park, who feels

ABOUT LAN SAMANTHA CHANG Lan Samantha Chang 's fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Story, and The Best American Short Stories. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Iowa, she divides her time between Northern California and Princeton, New Jersey.   AN INTERVIEW WITH LAN SAMANTHA CHANG Many of the families in Hunger have attempted to sever themselves from the past in order to build a future. Was this how your parents coped with starting over in America? What parts of Chinese

Book Review Author: Jung Chang Title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Publication: Simon and Schuster, London, 1991 1. Main Thesis In Wild Swans, Jung Chang describes the life of three generations of woman in her family. Beginning in the year 1909 and ending in present time, it gives an insight into almost eighty years of the cultural history of China. Jung Chang has said in a interview that her intention in writing Wild Swans was to show how the Chinese people, and in particular the women

distance herself from her parents' Chinese heritage so that she may be more American. The best way to achieve this, as Chang sees it, is to convert to Judaism. While she is outwardly successful, her identity confusion prevents her from being capable of handling a serious relationship, consequently implying her powerlessness to mature. Chang finally matures once she figuratively confronts Matsumoto, who becomes the culminating icon of her identity

Throughout the history of mankind, many genocides have occurred around the world because there is much hatred among specific kinds of people. A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. An example of a genocide in Germany is the Holocaust where Elie Wiesel, the author of Night, showed the Jews’ experience from the horrors, tortures, and killings in the death camps. At the same time, a mass execution was happening in Nanjing

“Love in a Fallen City” written in 1943 by Chinese writer Eileen Chang(1920-1995). Eileen Chang is one of the most writers of twentieth- century in China. She was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Chang’s grandfather is Hang peilun who is son in law to Li hongzhang, an influential official in Qing dynasty. Her grandmother Li juyu is the oldest daughter of Li hongzhang. Chang studied literature at the university of Hong Kong. However, in 1941 Japanese attacked on Shanghai, and she had