Person: Jung Chang

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Book review: ‘Fly, Wild Swans’ is a poignant, powerful memoir

A subtext of this book is the West’s hypocrisy towards China: securing favourable trade agreements with the country dwarfs ostensible concerns about human rights

Sat, 13 Dec, 2025

Jung Chang: Shining a light on the east

JUNG CHANG set the literary world alight with her electrifying debut, Wild Swans, a family memoir of three generations of Chinese women. It was released in 1991 and sold 13m copies, becoming the highest selling non-fiction paperback ever.

Wed, 02 Jul, 2014

Scene and Heard: Coronas for Live at the Marquee tonight

MARQUEE REPORT: Over the next week performers at Live at the Marquee in Cork include the Coronas (tonight), Nathan Carter (Sunday), Bob Dylan (Monday) and Tom Jones (Thursday).

Fri, 13 Jun, 2014

First Thoughts

The weeks book reviews in brief

Sat, 19 Oct, 2013

Amnesty loses the run of itself by smearing Bush with Stalin’s brush

CAFÉ MAO is the name of not one, but two, restaurants in Dublin. This column does not review restaurants, however, and I will confine my comments to the strange choice of name.

Wed, 22 Jun, 2005