Jan Wong
Autore di Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
Sull'Autore
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.
Fonte dell'immagine: Jan Wong [credit: Kelly Baker]
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Wong, Jan
- Data di nascita
- 1952-08-15
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di nascita
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
Beijing, China
Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Istruzione
- McGill University
Beijing University
Columbia University - Attività lavorative
- journalist
columnist
author - Premi e riconoscimenti
- New England Women’s Press Association Newswoman of the Year Award
National Newspaper Award (Canada)
Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Silver Medal
George Polk Award - Breve biografia
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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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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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. :-(
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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- Utenti
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- Popolarità
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- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 24
- ISBN
- 43
- Lingue
- 4
Overall a very interesting piece of writing but not ground-breaking.