{"id":35200,"date":"2012-04-13T16:04:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T15:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=35200"},"modified":"2012-04-26T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T08:46:43","slug":"jung-chang-at-the-southbank-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=35200","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: Jung Chang at the Southbank Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?attachment_id=35202\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35202\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-35202\" title=\"Jung Chang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/24_jung_chang.jpg\" alt=\"Jung Chang\" width=\"210\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/24_jung_chang.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/24_jung_chang-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><strong><strong>Date:<\/strong>\u00a024 April\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><strong>Time: 7:45pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue:<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Purcell Room, Southbank Centre,\u00a0Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Tickets: \u00a310\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk\/find\/literature-spoken-word\/tickets\/jung-chang-wild-swans-21-years-on-64557\">book here\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the continuing Southbank season celebrating Index on Censorship\u2019s 40th birthday, Jung Chang will be in conversation with Isabel Hilton.<\/p>\n<p>Jung Chang&#8217;s Wild Swans was published 21 years ago, and remains\u00a0the 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&#8217;s economy in the 21st century, over 13 million copies of the book have been sold in 36 languages.<\/p>\n<p>However it remains banned in China.<\/p>\n<p>Topics for discussion at the event include Jung Chang&#8217;s writings, censorship and Chinese politics today.<\/p>\n<p><em>Read the 40th anniversary issue of Index on Censorship magazine, including exclusive articles by Aung San Suu Kyi and Ariel Dorfman,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/subscribe\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Search the Index on Censorship\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/magazine-archive\/\">literary archive<\/a>\u00a0for free until 4 May.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>24 April:<\/strong> Jung Chang at the Southbank Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35200"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35232,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35200\/revisions\/35232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}