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Jan Wong is a prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. A third-generation Canadian, she is the eldest daughter of a prominent Montreal restaurateur.

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Kanonisk navn
Wong, Jan
Fødselsdato
1952-08-15
Køn
female
Nationalitet
Canada
Fødested
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Bopæl
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Beijing, China
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Uddannelse
McGill University
Beijing University
Columbia University
Erhverv
journalist
columnist
author
Priser og hædersbevisninger
New England Women’s Press Association Newswoman of the Year Award
National Newspaper Award (Canada)
Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Silver Medal
George Polk Award
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Jan Wong was the much-acclaimed Beijing correspondent for The Globe and Mail from 1988 to 1994. She is a graduate of McGill University, Beijing University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She is the recipient of a (US) George Polk Award, the New England Women’s Press Association Newswoman of the Year Award, the (Canadian) National Newspaper Award and a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Silver Medal, among other honours for her reporting. Wong has also written for The New York Times, The Gazette in Montreal, The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal.

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Jan Wong writes interesting and undoubtfully quite accurate about the situation in China during the Mao period. Nevertheless, she somehow still is a bit naive in her writing and because the book is non-fictional the storyline is not always really clear (sometimes it is just pages of summaries of what's wrong in China and this makes the book lose its pace).

Overall a very interesting piece of writing but not ground-breaking.
 
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Boreque | 14 andre anmeldelser | Feb 7, 2022 |
Part confessional memoir and part travel book, Jan Wong revisits the sins of her past self, and in the process discovers a China much changed from the one she knew from decades ago. A Canadian of Chinese ancestry, Wong's youthful exploration of communist philosophy had led her to seek out the Maoist application of it first hand, being one of only a few Westerners allowed into China at the time. There, through what she later recognises as her own blind fanaticism, she tattles on a fellow student, reporting them for subversive activity. Over thirty years later, now disabused of her earlier zealotry, Wong returns to find out what happened to this individual, and in the process discovers a China much changed by modernisation and free-market capitalism. A fascinating and insightful read.

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Gareth.Southwell | 7 andre anmeldelser | May 23, 2020 |
Not a great book but worth reading if you are going to Beijing as I am. The story is based on her trip to Beijing in 2006 so I expect things have continued to change rapidly in a decade. Her Beijing sound plastic and nouveau riche. So much of the old Beijing has been destroyed as they rushed to put in six lane highways, the Great Mall and huge new high rises. it sounds like most of the best of old Beijing is gone. :-(
 
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SigmundFraud | 7 andre anmeldelser | Apr 2, 2016 |
Excellent introduction to the cultural revolution and ideology of Mao Zedong as explained through the eyes of a young Canadian college student who happened to be of Chinese descent. The retelling of the events leading up to and during the Tiananmen Square massacre are especially gripping.
 
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valorrmac | 14 andre anmeldelser | Aug 19, 2015 |

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ISBN
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