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PAST EVENT: Jung Chang at the Southbank Centre
24 April: Jung Chang at the Southbank Centre
13 Apr 12

Jung ChangDate: 24 April 
Time: 7:45pm
Venue: Purcell Room, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
Tickets: £10 book here 

 

In the continuing Southbank season celebrating Index on Censorship’s 40th birthday, Jung Chang will be in conversation with Isabel Hilton.

Jung Chang’s Wild Swans was published 21 years ago, and remains the most successful non-fiction book in British publishing history. The memoir travels from the early days of communist hope and struggle to the birth of a superpower at the end of the 20th century. As China looks set to dominate the world’s economy in the 21st century, over 13 million copies of the book have been sold in 36 languages.

However it remains banned in China.

Topics for discussion at the event include Jung Chang’s writings, censorship and Chinese politics today.

Read the 40th anniversary issue of Index on Censorship magazine, including exclusive articles by Aung San Suu Kyi and Ariel Dorfman, here

Search the Index on Censorship literary archive for free until 4 May.

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At Index on Censorship, we believe everyone deserves the right to speak freely, challenge power and share ideas without fear. In a world where governments tighten control and algorithms distort the truth, defending those rights is more urgent than ever.

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