Beyond the Book
Jung Chang
was born in Yibin, Sichuan
Province, China, in 1952. She
was a Red Guard briefly at the
age of fourteen and then worked
as a peasant, a "barefoot
doctor," (A lay health care
worker who received 3-6 months
training in basic medical
principles),
a steelworker, and an
electrician before becoming an
English-language student and,
later, an assistant lecturer at
Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a...
