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Katie Leung has become well known to film audiences as Harry Potter's girlfriend Cho Chang, but she is now turning her efforts towards the stage, starring in Sacha Wares' production of Jung Chang's autobiographical play Wild Swans, which will play the...
But Voldemort has been vanquished and we can't all stay at Hogwarts forever, so now 24-year-old Scotland native Katie Leung is packing away her robes and trying her hand at something other than Quidditch: the stage. Leung stars in Wild Swans, a...
They fell in love and married. But my father (persecuted by the Red Guards) died in the cultural revolution in 1975
I’ll now attempt to show how Mao Zedong’s’s value system, maintained today by the Communist party, made this continuing barbarism possible. Many historians include him with Stalin and Hitler as the three worst mass murderers of the 20th century. Jung...
Indian fairytales, though they have grabbed her attention, have been given a miss by Cat. "I don't understand the nuances so I don't think I will be able to do justice to them," she explained. Another interesting personality was Jung Chang, who is now...
My grandmother was the last generation of women whose feet were bound...This was why my mother became a Communist at 15
The 24-year-old actress has landed the role of author Jung Chang in the production, which will open at the Young Vic in April. The book tells the true story of three female generations of Chang's family. Leung said it was a "great honour" to be cast in...
The 24 year old enrolled in an intensive drama course at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland over the summer (11) and admits the classes reignited her desire to act. Now she's set to make her stage debut in Wild Swans, an adaptation of Jung Chang's...
Jung Chang (traditional Chinese: 張戎; simplified Chinese: 张戎; Wade-Giles: Chang Jung, pinyin: Zhāng Róng, born March 25, 1952) is a Chinese-born British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in mainland China. Full Article
The concubines of the past have been replaced by mistresses. The rich and the powerful in China have ‘kept women’
It was in 1966. I did not see him clearly and I was quite heartbroken. He had that will, singlemindedness and the ardour to succeed. But he was so awful
My grandmother was the last generation of women whose feet were bound…This was why my mother became a Communist at 15
They fell in love and married. But my father (persecuted by the Red Guards) died in the cultural revolution in 1975
She was an extraordinary woman. She is the real founder of modern China. You don’t hear about her because after she died, China became a republic. All the republicans wanted to say their leaders were the founding fathers. Also, because she was a woman, nobody wanted to give her any credit, but she broug...
