JUNG CHANG TURNS SIXTY

JUNG CHANG

b. March 25, 1952

JUNG CHANG

张戎

The author of WILD SWANS (and co-author of MAO: The Unknown Story) has an additional reason to celebrate as WILD SWANS the play, having had its world premiere in Cambridge, Massachusetts, recently, is soon to open in London, where Dr. Chang has made her home for some years.

The Guardian had this comment on the initial impact of the book on which the play is based:

"There was a moment in the early 1990s when everybody everywhere seemed to be reading Wild Swans. The biggest grossing non-fiction paperback in publishing history, it sold more than 10m copies worldwide and was translated into 30 languages. ... Published two years after the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, Jung Chang's family memoir, following the lives of three generations of women through China's terrible 20th century, arrived at just the right time to satisfy a readership hungry for information about this unknown country."

For more about the play, including leads to more sources, see here and here and here and here.