While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. (Jung Chang)

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

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