The swan takes flight: A best seller in English, the book is of course full of exotic details that were written with foreigners in mind, and these are surely one of the reasons it has found such a large audience. For example, Chang describes in detail the painful history of her beautiful grandmother's feet being bound in childhood.
這本書曾是英語世界的暢銷書，當然書中一些充滿異國情調的情節是寫給外國人看的，也是它暢銷的原因之一，像是細細描寫大美女姥姥小時候給裹小腳的痛苦經歷。