Ei-ling was one of the richest women in China.

May-ling was one of the most famous women of her time, especially during the Second World War when her husband, Chiang Kai-shek, led the resistance against Japan. Even in exile, Ching-ling had a meeting with Stalin in the Kremlin. “They rose to high positions and travelled the world. In its timeless form it addresses the issues out of which human dramas are made: fear, bravery, love, betrayal, separation and reunion. “The sisters’ glamorous lives were a major attraction for me,” says Chang, who’s pretty glamorous herself with her elegant clothes and luxuriant black hair. Bilingual children's picture book (English Spanish), with audiobook for download 'The Wild Swans' by Hans Christian Andersen is, with good reason, one of the world's most popular fairy tales. Chang decided it was their story she needed to tell. Summary of The Wild Swans at Coole The poet revisits the scene of Coole lake. It belongs to the later period of Yeats’ poetry. It is the title piece of the small volume of poems, entitled The Wild Swans at Coole, published in 1919. In this novel we are introduced to three-generations, Wild Swan, her mother, and her grandmother’s journey through an ever-changing China. The Wild Swans at Coole was written in October, 1816. Their lives were bound up with some of the 20th century’s most significant upheavals and they brushed shoulders with everyone from despots to film stars. The book Wild Swans by Jung Chang takes place in the 20th century, in China.

She intended to write about Sun Yat-sen, a controversial figure who courted Lenin in his pursuit of power, but during her research Chang became fascinated by Sun’s wife Ching-ling and her sisters, May-ling and Ei-ling. In her new book, Chang calls the Cultural Revolution China’s “holocaust”.

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