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Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China

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內容簡介 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 SENSATIONJung 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.

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各界推薦 書評讚譽節錄「這本書的重要性無法被誇大。」——瑪麗．衛斯理（Mary Wesley）「《鴻》的一切都非凡至極。它激起了所有偉大悲劇應帶來的情感——憐憫與驚懼——同時也讓人驚嘆、絕望與欣慰，因為有如此明亮的智慧直指黑暗的核心。」——米奈特．馬林，《星期日電訊報》「極為動人與令人不安；是對一個國家精神死亡的難忘肖像。」——J.G. 巴拉德，《星期日泰晤士報》「《鴻》讓我彷彿回到五歲。這是一本家族回憶錄，卻擁有最深遠社會史的廣度。」——馬丁．艾米斯，《星期日獨立報》「從未有過一本這樣的書。」——愛德華．貝爾，《洛杉磯時報》ReviewPRAISE FOR WILD SWANS‘It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of this book’ Mary Wesley‘Everything about Wild Swans is extraordinary. It arouses all the emotions, such as pity and terror, that great tragedy is supposed to evoke, and also a complex mixture of admiration, despair and delight at seeing a luminous intelligence directed at the heart of darkness’ Minette Marrin, Sunday Telegraph‘Immensely moving and unsettling; an unforgettable portrait of the brain-death of a nation’ J.G. Ballard, Sunday Times‘Wild Swans made me feel like a five-year-old. This is a family memoir that has the breadth of the most enduring social history.’ Martin Amis, Independent on Sunday‘There has never been a book like this’ Edward Behr, Los Angeles Times

作者介紹

作者介紹 關於作者張戎（Jung Chang）1952 年出生於中國四川宜賓。她曾短暫加入紅衛兵，並歷任農民、「赤腳醫生」、鋼鐵工人與電工。1978 年赴英留學，成為第一位獲得英國大學博士學位的中華人民共和國公民。她的著作包括全球暢銷書《鴻：三代中國女人的故事》，該書榮獲 1992 年 NCR 圖書獎與 1993 年英國年度圖書獎，銷量超過千萬冊。現居倫敦。About the AuthorJung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was briefly a Red Guard, and then a peasant, a ‘barefoot doctor’, a steelworker and an electrician. She came to Britain in 1978, and became the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. Her books include ‘Wild Swans’, which won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year, and sold over 10 million copies. She lives in London.

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最佳賣點 : 張戎睽違三十年續寫傳奇家族史，從《鴻》延伸至當代中國。《Fly, Wild Swans》深情書寫母女命運，也直面極權陰影，是動人心魄的歷史回憶與時代見證。