Chang, Jung

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952.She left China for Britain in 1978 and obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of York in 1982, the first person from the People s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university.She lives in London with her husband, Jon Halliday, with whom she wrote "Mao: The Unknown Story".