I never really studied China and Communism. Now I am in the middle of reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang. This book is truly fascinating. It is a true story about the author, her mother and her grandmother and China starting in the late 1800s. The author does a great job of making you visualize the country. In fact, I even though about buying myself some bamboo silk trees to decorate my house.

The book is not all about the beauty of China, it is about its darker side. The hopes of the people when a new fairer communist government was put in place and how those hopes were destroyed.

It is a great book and well worth reading.