wild swans

For Wild Swans discuss which has the greatest impact on the composer, the state of the family?

Jung Chang not only extends the experiences, of herself and her families, about life in Twentieth Century China to all responders in her epic tale Wild Swans but accounts for the historical and social aspects that were essentially constructs of all members of her family. The detail in which she relays the arduous lives of her family is captivating. Jung Chang also conveys to the responder the viciousness of transitory political movements, structures and reigning figures of China that were constantly purging the lives of the Chinese. The lives of the “Three daughters of China” express the dynamics of humanity in all forms from the brutality to the profound act of kindness through the personal worlds of her grandmother (Yu Fang), mother (De Hong) and herself (Er Hong). They allow Jung Chang to examine the affects of both impact of the state and her family in detail. At times throughout t...