Podcast Episodes featuring Jung Chang

Jung Chang - Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China

Channel History Hit - April 28, 2017 15:57 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 208 ratings
In this talk, best-selling author of Wild Swans, Jung Chang gave a panoramic depiction of the birth of modern china and an intimate portrait of the most important woman in Chinese history. One of the emperor’s concubines, she launched a palace coup to become the Empress Dowager Cixi, the absolut...

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Private Passions - June 14, 2015 10:30 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 24 ratings
It's impossible to imagine what it must have been like to live in a society where Western Classical music was forbidden on pain of severe punishment, or where playing a musical instrument was something that could only be done in utter secrecy. But that was the situation in China during the Cultu...

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Desert Island Discs: Archive 2005-2010 - November 16, 2007 09:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 126 ratings
Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the author Jung Chang. Jung was born in the years after Mao came to power in China and as a child she took part in the Great Leap Forwards by collecting saucepans and nails and trying to melt them down for steel. She was a teenager during the Cultural Revolut...

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World Book Club - June 14, 2003 15:20 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 335 ratings
Prize winning Chinese writer Jung Chang joins a World Service audience to discuss her novel 'Wild Swans'. Presented by Harriett Gilbert.

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Bookclub - September 06, 1998 15:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 208 ratings
James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to writer Jung Chang about her award-winning family history Wild Swans.