Jung Chang: ‘Most Chinese people in my generation experienced starvation. You could feel it around you’
The Wild Swans author on China, London aand her indomitable mother
September 2020
Notebook
In a 'good country' league table, where would the UK stand now?
Tim Adams
Disregard for international law does not figure in Simon Anholt’s new book on what makes a nation great
February 2020
British Book awards balance art and selling power to decide best writer in 30 years
Novelists rub shoulders with presidents, chefs, comedians and thriller megastars on longlist to define the title with the biggest impact on the book world
December 2019
How to be hopeful
How to be hopeful: Jung Chang on the moment she knew Mao’s China would become less brutal
The author reflects on an inspiring photograph taken soon after her parents were released from Mao Zedong’s labour camps
October 2019
Observer New Review Q&A
Jung Chang: ‘To be a writer was the most dangerous profession’
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister by Jung Chang review – at the heart of 20th-century China
January 2016
Jung Chang presents PEN awards – while winners remain in prison or barred from travel
Wild Swans author honours work by Eritrea’s Amanuel Asrat, Turkey’s Can Dündar, and Egypt’s Omar Hazek
August 2014
Jung Chang reveals the truth of another chapter in Chinese history
The Empress Cixi's reputation as a cruel despot masks her contribution to China's modernisation says the author
October 2013
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang – review
Is a vigorous defence of a ruthless ruler, and murderer, justified, asks Isabel Hilton
September 2013
Observer New Review Q&A
Jung Chang: 'They should take down Mao's portrait from Tiananmen Square'
The Wild Swans author talks to Kate Kellaway about why she loves London, being banned in China and the astonishing life of an empress
May 2013
Jung Chang writes 'groundbreaking' new biography
Empress Dowager Cixi, which promises to overturn conventional understanding of the Chinese ruler, is Jung's first book in eight years
January 2009
liberty central
'Britain had the kind of freedom I could not dream of'
Video: Jung Chang: The writer speaks to liberty central about freedom of expression and why her books are banned in China
November 2008
Books preview: Jung Chang, Norwich
Monday, 7pm, Lecture Theatre 1, UEA, Norwich
February 2008
Writers' rooms
Writers' rooms: Jung Chang
I have worked in this room since 1992, and wrote Mao: The Unknown Story here. My co-author and husband Jon Halliday has a study on the floor below. We'd meet up at lunchtime and exchange our discoveries
June 2006
Jung Chang
Jung Chang
May 2005
'This book will shake the world'
Her novel Wild Swans smashed best-selling records worldwide. So what made Jung Chang then devote 10 years of her life to researching a hefty political biography of Chairman Mao? Lisa Allardice reports.
