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Jung Chang's book recommendations
Key facts
- Jung Chang has recommended or discussed 3 books on podcasts, as of November 29, 2023.
- Jung Chang has talked about books on 2 podcasts, as of November 29, 2023.
- Those books came up in 2 episodes, as of November 29, 2023.
- The book Jung Chang has mentioned in the most episodes, not counting Jung Chang's own, as of November 29, 2023: Was Mao Really a Monster?.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Jung Chang aired on November 29, 2023.
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Across 2 podcasts. Every show Jung Chang appears on, in one place — not just one.
Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in the People's Republic of China. Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, and touching on parts of her personal memoir, was published in June 2005. Reception of the work by academics is mixed, though the work has received acclaim in the popular press. Appearing on podcast interviews such as The Book Review and Dwarkesh Podcast, Chang discussed the writing of Wild Swans after recording her mother's stories and noted its 1991 publication. She also discussed her Mao biography, noting that it addressed historical actions of figures like Liu Shaoqi, and addressed academic criticisms of her work, including a collection of criticisms titled Was Mao Really a Monster? edited by Gregor Benton and Lin Chun.
Books recommended by Jung Chang
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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”
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Mao
Discussed“well it did happen in in the my biography there were I have a couple of chapters um about Lei exactly what you were suggesting what he should have done I mean I mean but I'm going to expand it in my next book”
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”
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Books by Jung Chang
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Wild Swans
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Mao
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Empress Dowager Cixi
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
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Mme Sun Yat-sen
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Fly, Wild Swans
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jung Chang (Wild Swans author) — Living through history's largest man-made famine | Dwarkesh Podcast | 2023-11-29 | 4 |
| Poems About the Challenges of Life After Prison | The Book Review | 2019-12-13 | 1 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
“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”