Communication, Creativity, and Transformation in Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Analysis of Chapters 7-12
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This essay analyzes Jung Chang's memoir Wild Swans, focusing on how seven key concepts—communication, creativity, perspective, representation, identity, culture, and transformation—are developed across chapters 7 to 12. The analysis traces the experiences of De-hong and her family through the Chinese civil war and communist era, examining how these interconnected themes illuminate the personal and historical dimensions of twentieth-century Chinese life.
What this essay covers
- Introduction to Wild Swans and Yang Ru-Shan's family lineage beginning in 1894
- Chapter 7: Communication concept illustrated through De-hong's dangerous journey south during civil war and her miscarriage crisis
- Chapters 8-9: Creativity, identity, and perspective as De-hong reunites with family and receives professional advancement despite personal hardships
- Chapter 10: Representation and culture concepts as De-hong becomes head of Chengdu East District Department and manages family life under Communist restrictions
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, by Jung Chang, is a memoir that starts with the great grandfather Yang Ru-Shan at the end of the nineteenth century. Born in 1894, he was the only son of his dad. There was tremendous pressure for him to produce family heirs so that the family name might remain. Yang Ru-Shan marries a 20-year-old woman when he is fourteen years old. Nevertheless, she is just called "two girls," and she does not have a name. After one year of marriage, you have your first child – a daughter. Yu-Fang is named after her. Subsequently, the seven concepts of communication, creativity, perspective, representation, identity, culture, and transformation are connected in chapters 7 to 12.
In chapter 7, a group of folks moving south joins De-hong and her spouse. The communication concept shows how the journey is risky because the civil war continues to rage, and De-hong wondered if she would ever see her family again. The trains are broken down and trek large miles every day to reach Nanjing, their destination, for forty days (Chang 163). De-hong is quickly pregnant, though till she has miscarried, she does not recognize that. She is at an opera and asks Wang Yu to return her to his car's army camp. He refuses to declare that the performance is pleasing to his driver. When Wang Yu comes, she wanders back and is unconscious and bleeding on her bed.