Episode · Dwarkesh Podcast · 2023-11-29
Dwarkesh Patel & Jung Chang: books mentioned on Dwarkesh Podcast
Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine
A true honor to speak with Jung Chang. She is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (sold 15+ million copies worldwide) and Mao: The Unknown Story.
Dwarkesh Patel discussed Mao by Jung Chang and others. Jung Chang discussed Wild Swans by Jung Chang and Was Mao Really a Monster? by Gregor Benton and others.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Mao
Discussed“um Wild Swans obviously but also your biography of Mao titled Mao the unknown story both of which we'll talk about today”
Where to get it
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Wild Swans
Wild Swans by Jung Chang is an autobiographical family history that chronicles the lives of three female generations in twentieth-century China.
Discussed“and then I wrote wild swangs um which was published in 1991 first um and I became a writer”
Where to get it
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Was Mao Really a Monster?
Discussed“there were some academics who public even published a book a collection of their criticisms against our book and the title was was M really a monster I mean you know the preface was rate him by by someone who was of a senior lecturer in lsse”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Wild Swans
“her first book Wild Swans has sold over 15 million copies worldwide”
Passing Little Red Book
“um which is why Mouse Little Red Book was invogue for a period in the west um and so people hang on to that and in a postm time money was the God”