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what becomes a legend most; "Wild Swans" author Jung Chang brings her pioneering biography of Mao, co-written with her husband, Jon Halliday, stateside this month.(Biography)
Byline: Isabel Hilton
The writer Jung Chang sits in the elegant first-floor sitting room in the roomy house in London's Notting Hill that she shares with her husband and coauthor, Jon Halliday. Now 53, she wears a simple beige dress set off by a pair of jade earrings. Poised and petite, she is preparing for a Far East tour, following the hugely successful British publication of her and Halliday's groundbreaking biography, Mao: The Unknown Story (Knopf), which is being published here this month.
As long as I have known her, Jung Chang has seemed determined to erase the memory of the enforced drabness and uniformity of her youth in China. In the early ...
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