The Wild Swans author discusses China, London and her indomitable mother
I meet Jung Chang between lockdowns – our lunch is the first time she has eaten out since the spring. “I feel liberated!” she says, a phrase that means more to her than most.
We are at e&o, a pan-Asian restaurant in Notting Hill, around the corner from where she lives with her husband, historian Jon Halliday. Like anyone who has read Chang’s book Wild Swans – 13 million copies sold – I feel as though I know her before she sits down, so unforgettable and harrowing is her account of growing up in Mao’s China. There are many ways of telling that story. As we order – she directs me toward the dim sum, her husband’s favourite – I ask if any particular food is evocative for her of that coming of age, and she talks me through some of that history.
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