![]() ![]() ![]() She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a PhD in Linguistics in 1982 at the University of York – the first person from Communist China to receive a doctorate from a British university. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) she worked as a peasant, a “barefoot” doctor, a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English-language student at Sichuan University. Jung Chang was born in Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She will also speak about the research for her biography of the Chairman, Mao: The Unknown Story, which she co-published in 2005 with her husband, the historian Jon Halliday. In this presentation, she will share her personal experiences of the Cultural Revolution and her journey writing her family’s biography. Jung Chang is the author of the international bestselling book Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, which tells the story of three generations of women-her grandmother, mother, and Jung herself-in twentieth-century China. ![]()
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