Chinese writer Jung Chang tells the story of her grandmother, who had her feet bound as a toddler and was sold as a concubine to a warlord; her mother, who worked for the Communist Party of China and Mao Zedong's Red Army, and her own experience as a member of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution. They all endured unbelievable hardships yet remained true to those they loved.
This moving and brutally honest family history has been translated into 30 languages and has sold ten million copies.