Jung Chang

b. 1952

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Jung Chang was born in 1952 in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China. She was a red guard at the age of fourteen and later worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician. She became an English language student and later an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. In 1978, she left China for Britain and was awarded a scholarship by York University, where she earned a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982—the first person from the People's Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. She lives in London and teaches at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University. She is the author of the award-winning book Wild Swans, published in 1991, and co-author with her husband, Jon Halliday, of Mao: The Unknown Story (2005).

Born

1952