Jung Chang

FLY, WILD SWANSBeautiful and moving Elif Shafak, The ObserverSUPERB '.

Daily TelegraphThe Ealing Book Festival are delighted to launch the 2026 programme with a rare chance to hear one of the University of West Londons most esteemed former alumnae Jung Chang talk about her magnificent follow-up to the international bestseller Wild Swans .35 years ago, Jung Changs ground-breaking memoir offered an essential understanding of Chinas recent history from the final days of the rule of Chinas last emperor through the Cultural Revolution and into the late 1970s, when Jung emigrated to Britain.

Fly, Wild Swans picks up where Wild Swans left off, tracing Changs life and Chinas transformation from the end of the Mao era to Xi Jinpings authoritarian rule today.

Chang explores how the political and cultural shifts of the last five decades have shaped her life and that of her mother, offering an immersive and deeply moving account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order.Jung Chang is the bestselling author of Wild Swans , which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.

Her acclaimed works on Chinese history have been translated into over 40 languages and she holds a CBE for services to literature.In conversation withLorraine Heggessey.Event duration: 1 hour