Award-winning author says China ‘too dangerous’ to visit her dying mother
Wild Swans author fears imprisonment for writing about CCP
- Award-winning author Jung Chang says she is unable to visit her dying 94-year-old mother in China, fearing imprisonment due to her critical writings about the Chinese Communist Party.
- Chang, known for her memoir Wild Swans, last saw her mother in 2018 and has been warned by relatives to prepare for the worst as her mother's health declines.
- She believes her documentation of Mao's misrule makes her vulnerable under Xi Jinping's tightened grip on dissent, which includes making insulting revolutionary heroes a crime.
- Chang's new book, Fly, Wild Swans, is dedicated to “my mother, whose deathbed I am unable to visit”.
- Chang believes China, with its ideological goal to dismantle the capitalist world, poses a more significant threat to Western security than Russia.