![]() ![]() The Cixi in Empress Dowager Cixi is a feminist, a visionary and "the greatest woman in Chinese history". Her most recent book is a biography of Empress Dowager Cixi who controlled China from 1861 to 1908 and is generally considered a cruel despot. In 2005, Chang, along with her Irish historian husband John Halliday, wrote Mao: The Unknown Story, which showed Mao Zedong as one of the most monstrous tyrants of the 20th century. Hillary Clinton called it "an inspiring tale of women who survived every deprivation and political upheaval with their humanity intact." Martin Amis said it made him feel like a five-year-old, adding, it "has the breadth of the most enduring social history." It was translated into 37 languages and sold more than 13 million copies. And here was an account of three generations of Chinese women: Chang’s grandmother, a warlord’s concubine her mother, a revolutionary and Chang herself, a former Red Guard who eventually moved to England. The average reader was relatively ignorant about China but keenly interested. This big green book was published just two years after the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. Her family memoir Wild Swans was the book of the ’90s, which is to say, everybody read it. But all of her three books are banned in China. ![]() ![]() Jung Chang is the most well-known Chinese writer in the world. ![]()
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