Jan Wong
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.
Her first book, Red China Blues: My Long...
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Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Editors, Journalists, Publishers; Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-66359-5 (0-385-66359-5)
June 24, 2008 | $21.00
Jan Wong has returned to Beijing. Her quest: to find someone she encountered briefly in 1973, and whose life she was certain she had ruined forever.
In the early 70s, Jan Wong travelled from Canada to become one of only two Westerners permitted to study at Beijing University. One day a young...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
978-0-385-66566-7 (0-385-66566-0)
August 28, 2007 | $19.95
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer -- and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University -- her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One...
Trade Paperback | 312 pages | Anchor Canada | Biography & Autobiography
978-0-385-25982-8 (0-385-25982-4)
June 12, 2001 | $17.95
Sixty of Jan Wong's most controversial and entertaining "Lunch With"columns from the Globe and Mail, combined with witty and wise comments from the author herself.
Now is your chance to dine with Jan Wong as she dishes, disses and dissects the likes of Suzanne Somers, Margaret Trudeau, Stockwell Day, Atom Egoyan, Margaret...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Current Affairs - International
978-0-385-25939-2 (0-385-25939-5)
October 10, 2000 | $19.95
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...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Doubleday Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Political
978-0-385-25639-1 (0-385-25639-6)
May 19, 1997 | $21.00
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer -- and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University -- her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One...
