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• Wild swans

  

  Her daughter, born in , experienced the horrors of japanese occupation in manchuria as a schoolgirl, and after their surrender joined the communist-led underground fighting chiang kai-shek's kuomintangin , at the age of 15, the author's grandmother became the concubine of a powerful warlord, whom she was seldom to see during the 10 years of their "marriage"she joined the red guard but after mao's death she was to become one of the first chinese students to study abroadoxfam bookshop cheltenham through the lives of three different women - grandmother, mother and daughter - this book tells the story of 20th-century chinaat times scarcely credible in the details it reveals of the suffering of millions of ordinary chinese people, it is an unforgettable record of tyranny, hope and ultimate survival under conditions of extreme harshnessher husband, also a high official and one of the very first to join the communists, was relentlessly persecuted, imprisoned and finally sent to a labour camp where, physically broken and disillusioned, he lost his sanitysee oxfam website for delivery information read moreshe rose to be a senior communist official, but was imprisoned three timesthe author herself grew up during the cultural revolution, at the time of the personality cult of mao and the worst excesses of the gang of four

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