In some cases, author signed bookplates are available too. Tue 13.59 EST Several years before Jung Chang's Wild Swans (1991) proved a sensation in the west, the work of another Chinese woman who suffered badly during the Cultural Revolution's. You can buy copies of many of our speakers’ books from Fox Lane Books, a local independent bookseller and Festival partner. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout. You’ll receive a link to join a couple of days before the event takes place and a reminder an hour before. T his event is hosted live on Zoom Webinar.

They remained close emotionally, even when they embraced opposing political camps and Ching-ling dedicated herself to destroying her two sisters’ worlds. They showed great courage and experienced passionate love, as well as despair and heartbreak. Little Sister , May-ling, became Madame Chiang Kai-shek, first lady of pre-Communist Nationalist China and a major political figure in her own right.īig Sister, Ei-ling, became Chiang’s unofficial main adviser – and made herself one of China’s richest women.īased on her book Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister, Jung Chang, the best-selling author of Wild Swans, reveals the lives of three extraordinary women who helped shape 20th-century China.Īll three sisters enjoyed tremendous privilege and glory, but also endured constant mortal danger. Red Sister , Ching-ling, married the ‘Father of China’, Sun Yat-sen, and rose to be Mao’s vice-chair. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the centre of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history. Commissioned and premiered 912, 15, by the Boston Ballet Orchestra, Jonathan McPhee, conductor, for The Wild Swans, Jill E. They were the most famous sisters in China.

Wild swans 1991