![]() ![]() Secondly, it is retrospective memory, mediated by the author's anglicized perspective. ![]() First of all, it showcases essentialized national culture and history and managing trauma as symptoms of cultural deficiency. ![]() This paper argues that the book is a bicultural product, involving constant negotiation between the site of experience and the place of writing. However, such a perception leaves out narrative politics and simplifies the multilayered process of writing in the diaspora. The way that academic and non-academic circles in the West readily embrace it betrays an unqualified equation of the book to a reliable source of knowledge regarding Chinese culture and history. Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of Chinaachieved spectacular success and received worldwide critical acclaim. ![]()
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