Cory's January Staff Pick

Wild Swans

By Jung Chang

CT 1828 .C478 A3 1992

I read Chang’s book 15 years ago and still remember it vividly as a moving, emotional portrait of life in 20^th century China (where it is still banned). She tells the story of three generations of women in her family: her grandmother, whose feet were bound to make her more attractive to men; her mother, who walked on Mao’s long marches and was later “rehabilitated”; and herself, an intellectual woman raised in Mao’s Red Guard who eventually fled his regime and earned her Ph.D. in London.