Summary Of Wild Swans: Three Daughters Of China By Jung Chang

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang is a memoir of Jung Chang’s grandmother, her mother, and herself being revolutionary and communist in China during their life time. By telling these stories, they could reflect the real life in China that not a lot of people experienced.

I grew up in China but in school teachers do not talk about communist, so I don’t know a lot about them. Reading this book made to understand more about the history of China. Chang did a very good job of telling readers facts of the historical events that happened lead to issues that her family was facing. It is good for readers who did not know a lot about the history of China. In early chapters of the book, author gave a lot of background information and

“the process lasted several years. Even after the bones had been broken, the feet had to be bound day and night in thick cloth because the moment they were released they would try to recover. For years my grandmother lived in relentless, excruciating pain. When she pleaded with her mother to unite the bindings, her mother would weep and tell her that unbound feet would ruin her entire life, and that she was doing it fro her own future happiness” (5). This is a great representation of imagery in this book because while reading this passage you can feel the pain, even though you did not actually experience it before. The description of “Corpses were lying all over the street, many of them with their heads and limbs missing, others with their intestines pouring out. Some were bloody messes. Chunks of flesh and arms and les were hanging from the telegraph poles. The open swearers were clogged with bloody water, human flesh, and rubbles” (124). showed how badly the civil war between communists and nationalists. Even though all these events did not happen to us personally but while reading Wild Swan, we could easily imagine and have empathy to people who were in all these events. The great use of imagery by the author makes the stories in the book remarkable, it is hard for reader to forget the highlights of the