38 A Note About the Author

Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans, which The Asian Wall Street Journal called the most widely read book about China, and Mao: The Unknown Story (with Jon Halliday), which was described by Time as “an atom bomb of a book.” Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside mainland China, where they are both banned. She was born in China in 1952 and moved to Britain in 1978. She lives in London.

Visit: www.jungchang.net

Also by Jung Chang

WILD SWANS: THREE DAUGHTERS OF CHINA

MAO: THE UNKNOWN STORY

(with Jon Halliday)

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister – Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China