Jung Chang Commends Empress Dowager In New Book
In a video interview with Te-Ping Chen in The Wall Street Journal Asia, Wild Swans author Jung...
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‘Groundbreaking’ Jung Chang Book Soon to Release
Biographer Jung Chang, author of the widely-translated and critically-acclaimed 1991 family history Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, will be publishing her latest work in October of this year. The upcoming biography tells...
Read MoreJade and Plastic: A Review of Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday – Andrew Nathan
From London Review of Books, via A Glimpse of the World: It is clear that many of Chang and Halliday’s claims are based on distorted, misleading or far-fetched use of evidence. They state, for example, that the Chinese Communist Party ‘was founded in 1920’, and not, as is usually said, in 1921 – a point […]
Read MoreInterview with Jung Chang and Jon Halliday – Michael Krasny
On KQED’s Forum program, host Michael Krasny interviews author Jung Chang and historian Jon Halliday, co-authors of “Mao: The Unknown Story.” You can listen live to the program on the KQED site. The audio archive should be available on the site later today.
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Censorship Vault: Beijing Internet Instructions Series (26)
In partnership with the China Copyright and Media blog, CDT is adding the “Beijing Internet...
Read MoreThe Thoughts of Chairman Mao (Starring Jackie Chan and Jet Li)
The Independent watches the patriotic blockbuster Jianguo Daye (The Founding of the Republic): Mao is played by the startlingly similar Tang Guoqiang, who emphasises his “Great Helmsman” side, a hagiography of the...
Read MoreWriters Call For China Dissident’s Release
From Reuters: An international writers’ organization has called for the release of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, detained after he helped write a pro-democracy manifesto. Writers including Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood,...
Read MoreSocialism is Great!: Growing Up Headstrong in 1980s China
The New York Times reviews a new book by Zhang Lijia: Lijia Zhang is a child of the 1980s. In “
Read MoreUnderstanding China Begins With a Look at Mao
The Los Angeles Times’ Susan Spano travels to Mao Zedong’s hometown of Shaoshan and looks at the lingering impact of his policies on China today: In the West, however, he is remembered as the instigator of bloody...
Read MoreMade in China, Read Worldwide – Helen Brown
Helen Brown discusses the Western enjoyment of China’s “forbidden literary fruit,” with references to yellow books and blue books, Ezra Pound, “cold literature,” and the lack of domestic crime thrillers. From Telegraph newspaper online: Fifteen years ago, a big green book emerged from a country better known for a little red one. Jung Chang‘s family […]
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