Jung Chang’s Memories of Twentieth Century China: From the Dowager Empress Cixi to Wild Swans

A recent work trip to China, to visit the University of Nottingham’s campus at Ningbo, has had some possibly quite unexpected side effects. As a child, I was fascinated by anything and everything to do with Marco Polo, the idea of long- distance travel, the Silk Road and just the idea of ‘China’ as this…