The strands of this family history occupied her thoughts for several years until she wove together Wild Swans, a memoir that takes the experiences of three generations of Chinese women as its weft and modern Chinese history as its warp.
這些故事在張戎心中激盪了兩年多，蕩出了這本以三代中國女性為經、近代中國歷史為緯的自傳式作品《鴻》。