Jung Chang

Jung Chang

CBE
Chang in 2010
Chang in 2010
Native name
張戎
Born (1952-03-25) 25 March 1952 (age 72)
Yibin, Sichuan, China
OccupationWriter
NationalityBritish and Chinese[1]
Period1986–present
GenreBiography
SubjectChina
SpouseJon Halliday
Jung Chang's voice
from the BBC programme Woman's Hour, 18 December 2013.[2]
Website
www.jungchang.net

Jung Chang CBE (traditional Chinese: 張戎; simplified Chinese: 张戎; pinyin: Zhāng Róng; Wade–Giles: Chang Jung, Mandarin pronunciation: [tʂɑ́ŋ ɻʊ̌ŋ]; born 25 March 1952) is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China.[3] Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005.

  1. ^ "Turning the page on the Asian mystique" Archived 24 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine, The Jakarta Post, 31 March 2010
  2. ^ "Jung Chang". Woman's Hour. 18 December 2013. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  3. ^ "Wild Swans author Jung Chang awarded CBE for services to literature". 21 March 2024. Independent.