Jung Chang (7 kníh)
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Jung Chang Big Sister, Little Sister, Red SisterThe best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country'...
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Jung Chang Empress Dowager Cixi ENIn this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vividly describes how Empress Dowager Cixi – the most important woman in Chinese history – brought a medieval empire into the modern age. Under her, the ancient country attained virtually all the attributes of a modern state and it was she who abolished gruesome punishments like ‘death by a thousand cuts’ and put an end to foot-binding. Jung Chang comprehensively…
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Jung Chang Mao ENJung Chang's Wild Swans was an extraordinary bestseller throughout the world, selling more than 10 million copies and reaching a wider readership than any other book about China. Now she and her husband Jon Halliday have written a groundbreaking biography of Mao Tse-tung. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and with virtually…
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Jung Chang, Jon Halliday Mao - Příběh, ktorý možná neznáte CZAutorka světově proslulého bestselleru Divoké labutě Jung Chang vytvořila se svým manželem, historikem Jonem Hallidayem, vskutku monumentální dílo zasvěcené té nejzápornější postavě dějin 20. století ― Mao Ce-tungovi. Tato obsáhlá biografie si vyžádala deset let příprav, studia a cestování. Je plná překvapivých odhalení, úryvků z rozhovorů s významnými osobnostmi i faktů z Maova soukromého života. Výsledkem je…
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Jung Chang Wild Swans ENFew books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself - Jung…
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Jung Chang, Jung Chang Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China ENIn Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party…
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