Despite her luxurious surroundings, life was tense as she feared the servants and the wife of the General would report rumors or outright lies to him. After a wedding ceremony to the General, who already had a wife and many concubines, the young girl was left alone in a wealthy household with servants, and did not see her ' husband' again for six years. As the family was relatively poor, her father schemed to have her taken as a concubine to high-ranking warlord General Xue Zhi-heng, in order to gain status, which was hugely important in terms of quality of life. The book starts by relating the biography of Chang's grandmother (Yu-fang). It has been translated into 37 languages and sold over 13 million copies.

Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. Later, she earned a scholarship to study in England, where she still lives. Chang took part in the Cultural Revolution as a member of the Red Guards, but eventually her father was tortured and she was sent to the countryside for thought reform. Chang's mother rose in status as a member of the Communist Party. Her grandmother had bound feet and was married off at a young age as the concubine of a high-status warlord. First published in 1991, Wild Swans contains the biographies of her grandmother and her mother, then finally her own autobiography.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is a family history that spans a century, recounting the lives of three female generations in China, by Chinese writer Jung Chang.

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