Jan Wong's China Paperback by Jan Wong

Product Details

• Publisher: Doubleday Canada (2000-10-10)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385259392
• Item Weight: 394.07 grams
• Dimensions: 8.23 x 5.45 x 0.89 cm

Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Jan Wong looks back on her body of work as a foreign correspondent in China in the late '80s and early '90s. Despite the fact that China continues to transform itself, Wong discovers that nothing really changes, and what she wrote then about love, work and living still holds, as do the conflicts over who rules, who survives, and who gets the bigger slice of Peking Duck. With wry humour and behind-the-scenes detail, Wong incorporates a selection of her articles published in The Globe and Mail into a richly narrated journalistic adventure.

Jan Wong's first book, Red China Blues, was named one of Time magazine's top ten books of 1996 and remains banned in China.

About the Author

JAN WONG is a Canadian academic, journalist, and writer. She has worked and written for The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Montreal Gazette, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, National Newspaper Award, New England Press Association Newswoman of the Year Award, and more. She is the author of Lunch with Jan Wong, Beijing Confidential, Jan Wong's China, Red China Blues, Out of the Blue, and Apron Strings. She currently divides her time between Toronto, where she is a columnist for Toronto Life magazine, and Fredericton, where she is a professor in journalism at St. Thomas University and a columnist for the Halifax Chronicle Herald.