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

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

by Jan Wong

Doubleday Canada | October 10, 2000 | Trade Paperback

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.

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    A Look into Mysterious China!

    David Cavaco

    3 years ago

    Despite the book's publication a decade ago, it still presents a fascinating and still relevant insight into China. Great chapters about various sub-layers of Chinese culture and society from the point of view of Chinese-Canadian author Jan Wong. The chapter on the sky-burial tradition of Tibet was eye opening. Most of us might think of China as a demographic and economic power-house but we still have a lot to learn about the complexity of China's 4,000 years of civlization. China matters!

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    Cherie Szucs

    Rating: 5/5

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    Cherie Szucs

    11 years ago

    An excellent read. Contains a ton of interesting and intriguing facts about a country obsessed with regulations and protocol to the demise of it's people. Jan Wong is easy to read and gifts us with not just an enjoyable story, but a ton of information on this "closed" country. She opens doors we "westerners" didn't even know existed! How sad and how proud the Chinese are . . . how difficult life is for MILLIONS of people! Thank you Jan Wong for a startling education on the current state of China. I'll avoid yak tartar the next time I'm in Tibet!!

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From Our Editors

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.

From the Publisher

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

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.

Trade Paperback

352 Pages, 5.45 x 8.23 x 0.89 IN

October 10, 2000

Doubleday Canada


0385259395
9780385259392

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From the Critics

"A marvellous window opening -- on to an enigmatic society." --The National Post

"A rich selection of China''s people, places and anecdotes." --The Globe and Mail

"A valuable first-person account of life, death and politics in a still-mysterious and troubled Asian giant." --The Edmonton Journal

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