She has since lived in England for 14 years, giving her the distance to view mainland China with proper perspective. After Wild Swans was published, Time praised her exquisite writing as "Dickensesque," and other reviewers compared Chang Jung to the storyteller of The Arabian Nights.
此後她在英國住了十四年，對中國大陸的看法，從「不識盧山真面目，只緣身在此山中」，直到從山裡出來，可以「橫看成嶺側成峰」了。