Author Jung Chang: ‘Jane Austen’s books flow effortlessly and give all the pleasures reading is meant to give’

Jung Chang is the author of Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, which has sold more than 15 million copies worldwide, except in China where it is banned, as are all of her other books. These include Mao: The Unknown Story; Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of ­Twentieth-Century China and her latest, Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China.