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Talking Books: Talking Books at Hay Festival: Jung Chang

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21/06/2014 GMT

Jung Chang

Talking Books at Hay Festival

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Razia Iqbal interviews Jung Chang at the Hay Festival about her latest work.

Razia Iqbal interviews Jung Chang at the Hay Festival about her latest work and how she continues to ruffle feathers in her home country.

Jung Chang's autobiography Wild Swans has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is still banned in the country of her birth, China. A critical biography of chairman Mao followed, a work involving hundreds of interviews with world-renowned figures, from the likes of George Bush to the Dalai Lama. Her latest work is a biography of the Empress Dowager Cixi who unofficially controlled the Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years until 1908. Razia Iqbal interviews her at the Hay Festival about how she continues to ruffle feathers in her home country.

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Talking Books takes to the road this month to visit the Hay literary festival in Wales.

Talking Books takes to the road this month to visit the Hay literary festival in Wales, one of the world’s most prestigious literary gatherings.

Talking Books takes to the road this month to visit the Hay literary festival in Wales, one of the world’s most prestigious literary gatherings. BBC presenter Razia Iqbal interviews international bestselling authors from around the globe looking at what drives their work and concentrating on their literary life story. In this series Razia meets acclaimed Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgaard and highlight of the Hay Festival, Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, among others.

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