An award-winning author has spoken of her heartbreak at not being able to visit her dying mother in China, fearing she could be jailed over her powerful account of life under the country’s authoritarian regime.
Jung Chang, the London-based author of the 1991 bestselling memoir Wild Swans, says she last saw her mother in 2018. Since then, her mother’s condition has worsened, and her relatives in China have warned Chang to prepare for the worst.
