WILD SWANS. THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA by Jung Chang

(original title: Wild Swans. Three Daughters of China) by Jung Chang.

The true story of "three daughters of China" (the author, her mother, her grandmother) whose lives and whose fates reflect a century of Chinese history, a time of revolutions, tragedies and hopes: from the age of "warlords" to the Japanese and then Russian occupation, from the civil war between the Communists and the Kuomintang to the long March of Mao and the Cultural Revolution. Raised as a "Red Guard", Jung Chang will eventually reap the legacy of pain and hope of her grandmother and mother, opposing the regime, which will deport her parents to a re-education camp and exile her at the foot of the Himalayas. , until the unexpected opportunity of expatriation, in 1978, to England.