Jan Wong's China: Reports from a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent

The late 1980s and early 1990s was a turbulent time in China. During this time, Jan Wong worked as a foreign correspondent in China. She recounts her time overseas in Jan Wong's China: Reports From a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent. More than just about politics and conflict, Wong writes about love, work and Peking Duck. Wong gives readers a behind-the-scenes look at her time in China and takes some of the mystery out of this confusing country. It contains anecdotes that will take readers into the heart of the Chinese political situation.

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.

Over the past three years in her tremendously successful "Lunch With" columns, Jan Wong has been able to combine two things she loves: good food and a good story. An award-winning journalist, she''s always willing to ask the questions no one else would ask to get at the story that her subjects don''t want told. She is also the author of two phenomenally successful books -- Red China Blues and Jan Wong''s China. She lives with her family in Toronto, where she is currently a reporter and columnist for The Globe and Mail.