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Fly, Wild Swans : My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang From shrunken heads to witches’Jung Changs Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother three daughters of China. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmothers birth and foot binding when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedongs rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jungs parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping