Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

全球暢銷傳記《鴻：三代中國女人的故事》睽違三十年的續作，終於問世。

張戎（Jung Chang）以《Wild Swans》（《鴻》）為無數讀者揭開中國近代歷史的個人面貌，從祖母纏足的命運開始，橫跨清末、毛澤東時代、文化大革命，直到1978年改革開放。當年她走出中國，成為第一批走向西方的中國學人。

如今，《Fly, Wild Swans》 延續這段歷史與家族記憶，講述她與母親在之後四十年間如何與變遷的中國持續交織。從自由作家的成長，到其著作在中國被全面禁絕的矛盾處境，她親眼見證了中國從貧弱走向強權、並在習近平領導下逐步回歸毛時代風格的政治轉向。

這本書是一封寫給母親的深情長信，也是對亡父與祖母的追念，更是對當代中國的凝視與省思。她以家族記憶書寫民族命運，以個人故事映照世界秩序的轉變，是一部極具感染力的時代見證與政治紀實。

THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION

Jung Chang’s 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 with her grandmother’s birth – and foot binding – in 1909, when China was under the last emperor, through Mao Zedong’s rule and the Cultural Revolution during which Jung’s parents were subject to unbelievable ordeals. It finishes in 1978 when the Mao era officially ended, and Deng Xiaoping started the post-Mao ‘Reforms’. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West.

Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a world power, the challenger to the United States’ dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung’s life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences in those years were rich and complex – especially so because all her books were (and are) banned.

Fly, Wild Swans is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung’s family – along with that of China – up to date. The book is in many ways Jung’s love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution, but they are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung’s subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what’s more, it promises to herald the future.

China is now at another watershed moment: Chairman Xi Jinping is seeking to turn the country back towards the old Maoist days and build a Communist state with capitalist features. This new Xi era is greatly affecting the lives of Jung and her mother. Through the arc of their respective lives, she gives an immersive, deeply moving and unforgettable account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. It is family history at its best.