Jung Chang
- China, United Kingdom
- Zu Gast beim ilb: 2011
Jung Chang born in Yibin, China, in 1952 and studied English at Sichuan University. In 1978 she won a scholarship to England, where she obtained a PhD in Linguistics at the University of York in 1982. »Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China«, her account of the lives of her family from the warlord period through the Mao regime became world famous and has sold some 13 million copies in over 30 languages. Her biography of Mao Tse-tung, written with her husband, Jon Halliday, was published in 2005. Jung Chang lives in London
© internationales literaturfestival berlin
Wilde Schwäne
Die Geschichte einer Familie
Drei Frauen in China von der Kaiserzeit bis heute
Droemer Knaur
München, 1991
[Ü: Andrea Galler u. Karlheinz Dürr]
Mao. Das Leben eines Mannes,
das Schicksal eines Volkes
[Mit Jon Halliday]
Blessing
München, 2005
[Ü: Ursel Schäfer, Heike Schlatterer, Werner Roller]
