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Product Reviews:
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: "Wild Swans" is a valuable experience !!
Comments: The copy of "Wild Swans" I read was found at a local thrift store. After reading a 100 pages, I had to purchase a copy for my best friend!! This is1of those perspective changing accounts that puts name and face to those geographically distant historical events that actually impact the world in which we all live. The author and I were born the same year, and when she is telling her personal experience growing up in Mao's China, it helped to recall what I was doing on the other side of the world in the same period of time. I write this to honor the author Jung Chang, her mother and grandmother, grateful that she gathered these people and events together to share the near incomprehensible struggles and survivals!! |
Rating: 4 (out of 5)
Summary: One of the better books
Comments: I read this book in paperback quite awhile ago however remember it as1of the better reads I ever had.
It was interesting to read about a China, that had been hidden from the rest of the world for so long, via this woman's family saga that starts with her grandma back in the early part of the 20th century when women still had to have their feet bound (unbelievable cultural norm in those days!!)
It continues via her parents who tried hard to be politically correct/current during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution under Mao (a psychopathic ruler if ever there was one).
Concurrently with her parents' story, is the author's own as she watches/experiences her family's trials/tribulations under Mao. She eventually leaves China in the 1970's using her learned English skills to become a teacher in the UK.
I was fascinated to learn about what China had been like during the era when it was firmly behind a bamboo curtain. This book vividly did that for me.
Highly endorseed. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Wild Swans
Comments: A capturing story even for me as a Chinese who grew up hearing some of those things already. I have endorseed it to several friends and keep this book on my bookshelf as a cultural reading. Highly endorse it. |
Rating: 1 (out of 5)
Summary: Book was dirty and marked with black markers
Comments: I ended up returning this because my "new" book was dirty on3sides and marked up with a marker. The price at the time was great though. I think if the description had said dirty book with marker then consumers could make an informed decision whether that would bother them. |
Rating: 5 (out of 5)
Summary: Family Strength Under Tragic Conditions
Comments: This is a beautifully written family memoir which will educate readers about the history of China since the 1920's through the eyes of3women who lived it.
We hear of the "Cultural Revolution" and Chairman Mao in passing, however there is little understanding of how it really played out for those living there. It's sad, and at times I was angry about what happened in China, however in the end I realized the beauty & strength of Family. |
