Sandra Barber:Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China' is probably the most memorable and emotionally affecting book I have read. It is the autobiography of Jung Chang. It tells the story of three generations of Chinese women, and is thus also the biography of Chang's mother and grandmother. It spans the years 1909 to 1992, and chronicles the social history of the country through the Manchu empire, republicanism, the rule of Chiang Kai-shek, the Japanese invasion, communism and the infamous 'cultural revolution'. The lives of the women are eventful, turbulent and often tragic, shaped by the constantly shifting political and social cultures in which they live....