Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was sold to a Beijing police boss (Xue Zhi-heng) as a concubine. Yu-fang fled bondage in by escaping her “husband” with her newborn girl, Bao Qin/ De Hong, Chang 's mom to-be. In the end she married Doctor Xia with whom she and her girl, Chang 's mom, made a home in Jinzhou, Manchuria, during the brutal occupation of the Japanese. Growing up amid Japan 's ruthless occupation, free-vivacious Bao Qin picked the man she
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Life under the Japanese is cruel and Bao Qin sees individuals she knows, including a dear companion, executed by them. Despite propaganda in education that Manchukuo is a paradise, one can still see the reality of life: social inequality. Japanese children went to separate school with better infrastructure, while local children went to depilated schools. Chan stated, “When a local children passed a Japanese in the street, they had to bow and make way, even if the Japanese was younger than themselves” (64). On June 1939, the Japanese announced that rice was reserved for the Japanese, which made lives for the locals much harder; some had to eat rotten maize with worms. As part of the Manchukuo education, Bao Qin had to watch newsreel of Japanese brutality unfold before her to inoculate fear. Chang stated, “The films showed Japanese cutting people in half and prisoners tied to stakes being torn to pieces by dogs”
Life under the Japanese is cruel and Bao Qin sees individuals she knows, including a dear companion, executed by them. Despite propaganda in education that Manchukuo is a paradise, one can still see the reality of life: social inequality. Japanese children went to separate school with better infrastructure, while local children went to depilated schools. Chan stated, “When a local children passed a Japanese in the street, they had to bow and make way, even if the Japanese was younger than themselves” (64). On June 1939, the Japanese announced that rice was reserved for the Japanese, which made lives for the locals much harder; some had to eat rotten maize with worms. As part of the Manchukuo education, Bao Qin had to watch newsreel of Japanese brutality unfold before her to inoculate fear. Chang stated, “The films showed Japanese cutting people in half and prisoners tied to stakes being torn to pieces by dogs”