Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

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Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

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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 Machine Tool Factory. In the name of the Revolution, she renounced rock & roll, hau...more

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Published May 19th 1997 by Anchor (first published January 1st 1996)

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Feb 10, 2008 Martine rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: anyone interested in China and unusual memoirs

Shelves: asian, favourites, history, journalism-in-book-form, memoirs, non-fiction, social-history, north-american

Memoirs about life in twentieth-century China tend to be profoundly depressing. I remember reading Wild Swans as a student and being so utterly depressed afterwards that I seriously wondered if I really wanted to go on learning Chinese and becoming a sinologist. And then I went to China and realised that no, I most certainly did not want to be a career sinologist. China and I are a bad match, but that doesn't stop me from continuing to be fascinated by the country.

Of all the memoirs of life in t...more Memoirs about life in twentieth-century China tend to be profoundly depressing. I remember reading Wild Swans as a student and being so utterly depressed afterwards that I seriously wondered if I really wanted to go on learning Chinese and becoming a sinologist. And then I went to China and realised that no, I most certainly did not want to be a career sinologist. China and I are a bad match, but that doesn't stop me from continuing to be fascinated by the country.

Of all the memoirs of life in twentieth-century China which have been published over the past twenty years, this is my favourite, precisely because it is not depressing. Sure, Wong describes some pretty shocking stuff, but for all that, the tone of her book is remarkably light-hearted. It's an easy, thoroughly engaging and occasionally mind-boggling memoir-cum-history of China which I highly recommend to anyone who is remotely interested in China.

The first half of the book is quite unique. In it, Wong (born into a fairly wealthy Canadian Chinese family) describes her teenage love affair with Maoism, which culminates in her visit to China in 1972, at the height of the Cultural Revolution. While shocked by the poverty she encounters, she decides to stay in China, becoming one of only two foreign students allowed to study at the newly reopened Beijing University. Eager to impress their two foreign guests, the authorities try to pamper then, only to find that Jan and her American fellow student Erica are devoted Maoists who, rather than having favours bestowed on them, want to become worker-soldier-peasant students just like their Chinese classmates. So when they're not learning Chinese by reading Mao and translations of Stalin, they shovel manure, work heavy equipment and break their backs harvesting aubergines and peanuts. While doing so, they encounter an awful lot of stuff that isn't quite right (and do some things themselves that are't completely right, either), but being young and naive and impossibly idealistic, they turn a blind eye. Wong ends up staying in China for six years, during which time her belief in Mao's brand of socialism very slowly erodes. From the reader's perspective, it takes an awful lot of time for her to realise that the Cultural Revolution is a disaster, but her misguided faith and enthusiasm do make for a very interesting read. Hers is a rare first-hand account of the Cultural Revolution from a brain-washed Westerner's point of view, and it's compelling stuff.

The second part of the book is less unique, but still fascinating. After a lengthy stint in North America, Wong returns to China in the late 1980s as a journalist, and decides to stay in Beijing when all hell breaks loose on Tiananmen Square in June 1989 and nearly all other foreigners are being evacuated from the country. Her account of the Tiananmen massacre is utterly compelling and chilling. She then goes on to describe meetings with dissidents, social ills in the countryside, the effects of China's new-found capitalism, etc., all the while drawing comparisons with the China she knew in the 1970s.

I guess one of the reasons why Red China Blues strikes such a chord with me is because in a way, Jan Wong's relationship with China mirrors my own. Like Wong, I went from infatuation with China to an acute dislike of the country. Needless to say, my own story isn't nearly as spectacular or dramatic as hers, but still, I recognise the feelings she describes.

Which is not to say that you have to be a disillusioned sinologist to appreciate this book. There's plenty to enjoy for non-sinologists. I have never read any of Jan Wong's columns in the Globe and Mail, but judging from this book, she is an excellent journalist. She is well-informed, has a good eye for odd and telling details and comes up with some very astute observations on China's past, present and future. Furthermore, she is honest and self-deprecating and gets good quotes from the locals because they trust her more than they do non-Chinese-looking-and-speaking journalists. It's easy to criticise Wong for being so terribly naive in the 1970s, but I for one found her portrayal of a genuinely deluded Maoist quite fascinating, not to mention frequently entertaining. As I said, it's a remarkably light-hearted book given the subject matter -- a nice change from all the serious, soul-crushing memoirs which have been published about life in China over the past twenty years. Very highly recommended to those who like well-written accounts of unusual lives and even more unusual historical developments.
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Jul 25, 2007 NRoe rated it 5 of 5 stars

Such a different perspective on the culture revolution. Written by a Canadian-born Chinese who returned to China as a die-hard Maoist during the heat of Cultural Revolution and direct-enrolled in Beida. She became fluent in Chinese and married a fellow ex-pat, going on to settle in Beijing as a reporter for the foreign press. She witnessed the entire Tiananmen disaster and I've never read an account as detailed as the one in this book, taking up more than a full chapter. Her perspective on the t...more

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Feb 20, 2013 Ensiform rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction, china

The tale of the Chinese-Canadian author’s long path from a deluded, naïve red-to-the-core Maoist to a cynical reporter who sees just how wrong she was. Wong’s life is enthralling in its sheer unlikeliness, even if Wong herself comes off as an unrepentant spoiled fool in the first half of the book. Wong dismisses the concerns of her wealthy father (born in Canada, the son of an emigrant) to become one of only two Westerners allowed to attend Beijing University in 1972, in the throes of the Cultur...more The tale of the Chinese-Canadian author’s long path from a deluded, naïve red-to-the-core Maoist to a cynical reporter who sees just how wrong she was. Wong’s life is enthralling in its sheer unlikeliness, even if Wong herself comes off as an unrepentant spoiled fool in the first half of the book. Wong dismisses the concerns of her wealthy father (born in Canada, the son of an emigrant) to become one of only two Westerners allowed to attend Beijing University in 1972, in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, and demands to work in the fields, so she can be “purified” by labor. She is far too stupid to understand that Mao’s policies were insane and destructive, and actually believed what millions of Chinese knew to be madness. If Wong were Chinese, she’d be merely naïve, or a tool of the system – as an educated Canadian who should have known better, she comes off as dangerously stupid, and her book is full of excuses and alibis for her actions. She takes pains to cite the turbulent political times, the anti-American sentiment, her youth… but those are not valid excuses. Millions of Americans criticized their government in the ‘60s and ‘70s without swallowing Mao’s gnomish madness, and tens of millions of teenagers may have impulsive tendencies but manage not to be raving absolutists about things which are obviously untrue.

So the first half of the book is infuriating, though still fascinating. Very early into Wong’s first visit to China, she started noticing that the Cultural Revolution had trashed standards throughout China, that “some people seemed more equal than others,” that food stores were sparse; but still she remains deluded and committed to Maoism. What kind of mind must she have had to be so blind? At one point she is so brainwashed (not, it must be noted, by anyone but her own faulty reasoning and stupidity) she denounces students who want her help to escape China. Wong realizes that this was a low point in her development, but she maintains a defensive attitude about even this, comparing herself to other Chinese denouncers. (She doesn’t seem to realize that they, who had to live there, may have had practical reasons to denounce others, such as to avoid more severe punishment for loved ones who may have been implicated.) As with all brainwashed zealots, it is only after her personal desires or freedoms are impacted that she truly begins to question what she believes: “I was sick of the double standard… How dare he interfere in my life. I had changed… I refused to endure the same kind of humiliation every Chinese endured,” she writes about the authorities’ attempts to prevent her from seeing her future husband. Wong’s stupidity and self-interest is rather pathetic, and she is a highly unsympathetic narrator – but as I say, the book is fascinating, if only because her experiences are so unreal and rare. After her apostasy, the book gets even more interesting, because of Wong’s unique ability to blend in with the Chinese people and get stories for the New York Times. She writes about the lead-up to the Tiananmen reprisals, when students went on “hunger strikes” in turns (with snack breaks), and how it suddenly turned from a rather jovial sit-in to a massacre. She gives in-depth reports on execution fields and the practicalities of summary executions; she visits entire villages made retarded and dwarfed by pollution; she investigates modern women trafficking; and she marvels at the breakneck pace of China’s embrace of capitalism, with its McDonald’s run by ex-cadre leaders, the new extravagance of penis and breast reconstruction (though the former has roots in China’s early rural economy, when boys had their penises bitten off by feral pigs as they defecated in fields at night). “Even my maid had a maid,” she writes, bemused at the changes. At this point Wong seems very clear-headed, but even late in the book, she claims that China was “an unrelentingly pure country” in 1980 because guards didn’t take bribes, compared to the pervasive bribery rampant in China today. But surely she realizes that bribery sprouts from lawlessness, and the lack of bribery is more likely rooted in fear of a mad despot than some ideological “purity” that never existed? It left me wondering if Wong ever really learned a lesson, or just got tired of being treated like a Chinese person. That aside, it’s a fascinating look at Chinese written from a unique perspective. (less)

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Apr 03, 2013 Jully Zhu rated it 5 of 5 stars

Such an amazing book! It has a lot of action in it and takes you through some really gruesome times in China. It's not usually my type of book at all.. but Wong keeps you interested by giving very vivid imageries and at the beginning of every chapter she would include two photographs of the people she might cover in the chapter. I've learned a lot through this book.. she's a great journalist that doesn't make you feel like she's pushing an ideology on you (unlike so many journalists today). This...more

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Sep 05, 2010 Jan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: non-fiction

Jan Wong is a Chinese-Canadian journalist who, as a starry-eyed and naive teenager, believed so strongly in the Chinese Communist experience that she found a way to become one of two foreigners admitted to Beijing University during the height of the Cultural Revolution.

In the end, Wong spent the majority of her late teens, twenties, and thirties living in "Red China." Her birds-eye view of the Cultural Revolution, of the "awakening" of Communist China under Deng Xiaoping, and, later, of the Tian...more

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May 13, 2007 Loz rated it 4 of 5 stars

I read this book and at times it made my jaw drop. This woman leaves a cushy life in Canada and heads to communist China. Why? Well she is an idealistic fool. She eventually finds villages where the entire population is inbred with amazing disabilities, she also ends up working in a factory and sleeping on the floor of it with her comrades. An amazing tale and I guarantee that by the end of the book you will want o just slap the author to wake her up. I really liked this book.

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Jan 30, 2012 Verma rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone interested in history experienced first hand.

Recommended to Verma by: I read of it on "Good Reads"

This is an amazing book. A Canadian girl of Chinese descent becomes enamored with China under communism. Starry eyed, she goes there in the 1970s to finish her schooling. She lives there for six years, becomes fluent in Chinese, participates in the Cultural Revolution, all the while unable until very late to see what she is witnessing is not the perfect society of her youthful vision. She willingly undergoes much hardship as students are sent for long stints of hard, disagreable farm work, are t...more

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May 29, 2012 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars

"A month after my worker-peasant-soldier class graduated, the Chinese Communist Party formally declared an end to the Cultural Revolution.... I felt betrayed, like the victim of a massive practical joke.... But from here on in, I promised myself, I would question everything. I wouldn't just listen to what people said, I would observe what they did and their body language while they did it." pg. 185 "For generations, Chinese society had emphasized the family, the clan, the collective over the ind...more

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Feb 26, 2012 Ellen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Over the years since the book came out, I had tried a few times to read it but just couldn't finish it due to lack of interest. It wasn't until I returned from a recent trip to Beijing and other parts of China that I was able to finish the book. Wong's stories and anecdotes suddenly came alive to me because I had visited Beijing University, Tiananmen Square and other places in person.
I feel like I understand my parents' China during the Communist era more. When I recommended this book to my bro...more

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Aug 31, 2010 Alex rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: china

The first half of this book is amazing, the author recounts her life as a die-hard maoist, one of the few Westerners allowed to live in china during the Cultural Revolution. This is quite the account.

Then she recounts her first-hand experience of the Tiananmen Massacre and events leading up to it. Very gripping.

The last part of the book was so hard to read. As is common among any die-hard radical, once one feels spurned by their previous love they turn on it with a vengence and swing radically...more

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Dec 28, 2010 Lisa Eggers rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: real-life-screwed-up-society

This was a nice, fat memoir about China from the perspective of a Jan Wong, a Canadian woman who started out as a dedicated Maoist and gradually came to her sences (over the course of 20 or so years). She's pretty likeable. She's a reporter, so she tends to tell it like it is, with a lot of useful history. I loved reading about her experience during the Cultural Revolution. She holds nothing back, even giving us all the grim details of her snitching (twice!) on what she believed (truely believed...more

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Oct 16, 2008 Julie rated it 2 of 5 stars

I liked this book (or maybe I like it) but I can't say for sure because I CANNOT FINISH IT. You know how sometimes your mind is finished reading something before it's actually done? Yeah. I'm there.

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Nov 29, 2008 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read this book in a modern Chinese politics class. I knew very little about the "bamboo curtain" or much about China during the Mao years period. This book was quite an eyeopener. The author was one of 2 foreigners to go to China during the height of the cultural revolution. The book chronicles her experience going from ardent communist believer, to her gradual awakening to what was actually happening around her. The book is well written, easy to read, and very enlightening.

The author experie...more

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Dec 25, 2008 Peter rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was published in 1996 so it's not up to the minute reality. Nevertheless, this book is amazing in bringing a flavor for us to taste.
The Tienanmen Massacre description, by itself makes for a gripping story. Jan Wong is reporting from the balcony above the Square. The brutality is awful.
Being that she is ethnic Chinese, they are many moments in her stay in China when she is able to get to a story from which "foreigners" are forbidden, although she is a Canadian citizen. Also fascinating tha...more

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Feb 17, 2013 Andrew Griffith rated it 4 of 5 stars

I enjoyed Jan Wong's account of her life as a student during the last days of the Cultural Revolution, and subsequent stint as Globe and Mail correspondent during the Tiananmen uprising and massacre. Much of her story is that of her personal growth and coming to terms with the reality of China and the Chinese government; starting off as an idealistic Maoist and ending as a disillusioned cynic of the corruption and inequality in contemporary China. A very good and interesting read, and helpful in...more

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Nov 26, 2010 Cnelsonquilt rated it 4 of 5 stars

this was very interesting and informative. the author was one of the first foreign students in the early 70's. she is from canada, a canadian chinese and was there with an american chinese student. she did not speak chinese when she arrived. she was a fan of Mao and communism. it is interesting to see how naive she was and how her thinking changed over the years. she ended up a journalist and spent many more years there. she had a front row seat for the massacre at tiananmen square. she covers t...more

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Apr 27, 2013 Eddy Allen rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: arts-and-historical

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Oct 14, 2012 Larae rated it 4 of 5 stars

Very good contemporary look at China from Mao's Cultural Revolution to 2000 by a first generation Canadian/Chinese woman who returned to China in rejection of American imperialism. Her eventual rejection of Chinese Communism is crowned with her experience as an eyewitness to the events surrounding Tienanamen Square. She does a good job of reliving her fanatical devotion to Mao and her gradual disaffection. Not as good as Wild Swans but an essential addition to it because it gives accounts of mor...more

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Jun 07, 2009 Elisa rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: fun-novels, historical-serious-reading

This one is a great autobiography. If you want to see the changes that took place in China after WWII from an 'Asian' perspective rather than a Western one, either watch "To Live" directed by Chang Yimou, or read this book. I liked it better than Wild Swans in some cases. Jan Wong is actually an American who chooses to go to China in the 70's because she believes in the Communist ideology. It is very interesting to see the changes that take place in her thinking over time. Goes all the way up to...more

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Oct 19, 2012 Jill Campbell-miller rated it 4 of 5 stars

The best part of the book was definitely the first half, which explored Jan Wong's completely unique experience of being a foreign student during the death throws of the Cultural Revolution. A Westerner at heart, Wong desperately wants to be part of the Chinese proletariat, and only the fervour of teenage radicalism can explain how she managed to keep hold of her idealism for so long in the midst of truly bizarre circumstances. This is an insight into the Cultural Revolution as told by a Canadia...more

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Nov 28, 2012 Diane rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: canada-canadian-author, china-chinese

In 1972, the author goes to China from Canada as one of only two foreigners a Beijing University. The first part of the book is about her life as a young, an avid Maoist in the new China. Wong does a good job of presenting her fanaticism and also reflecting on the events that eventually led to disillusionment. I particularly liked her fanatic engagement that helped me see better why Maoist China worked at all.

Wong never gives up on China. After returning to Canada and earning a journalism degre...more

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Feb 11, 2010 Katie rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: book-club, china

What a fascinating book. Jane Wong tells her story as a radical who leaves Canada (the evil West) to China to live under Mao's influence and power. If you don't know much about China - this is a great entry into its history. She goes into great detail but in a way that is not textbook-y, but interesting. I wanted to keep reading; I wanted to hear more of her story.

I am, however, deeply disturbed that she turned people in (people who trusted her!!!!) for not believing in Mao's manifesto. I mean i...more

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Jun 25, 2008 Richard rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: memoir

An interesting and quick read in which a Canadian-Chinese decides to go to China in the early 70s to join the revolution.

While in China, the author insist that she perform manual labor (haul pig manure) like the rest of the Chinese people in order to cleanse her of her western thoughts. As the years slip by her she begins to realize that the Communist Government is not what she thought it was, or should be. She was in essence young, naive and idealistic about Communist China.

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Aug 29, 2012 Laura rated it 5 of 5 stars

I really enjoyed this book. The view of China during the Cultural Revolution, "everyone a peasant worker" 70s was fascinating. The author's self-deprecating humor about her gung-ho embracing of the Communist utopia was funny, and the stories of how much it had changed in the 80s were both sad and amazing. She was right there in Tianamen Square as a journalist during the protests and massacre in 1989. Her description is horrifying.
Her husband's name in Chinese is "Fat Paycheck"!

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Dec 26, 2008 Denise rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: history

This is a beautiful book to read. It's well written and you can hardly put it down. Jan Wong let's us be witnesses of her life choices and their consecuences. It's interesting how and why she decides to go and live in communist China, how she strugles to get adjusted to that kind of political system and way of life. She then turns into a great journalist and let's us see some unknown aspects of modern China. It's a good book to learn more about China's history. I enjoyed it a lot!

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Jul 19, 2009 Susan rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a very interesting book. I found the author's choices fascinating and her demeanour mostly annoying but her life held a lot of interest for me so I kept reading. I would recommend this to those interested in travel writing, true to life experience books etc. because she definitely has a lot of experiences unlike most of us. Spending that many years in China gives her a special insight but it may have inadvertently changed her outlook as well and maybe not in a good way.

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Jan 20, 2013 Felecia rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was an interesting book. I was able to get an insiders view on what happened during the Cultural Revolution in the 70's and learn about the Massacre at Tiananmen in the 80's. There was alot I was unaware of. As the author mentions, so much was kept from the public. Interesting to see
how much China has changed over the years. The author was quite a brave person to have lived through all of this.
Good book to read if you are interested in learning about China and chinese culture from a Canadia...more

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Aug 20, 2012 Boris Van rated it 3 of 5 stars

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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Oct 17, 2009 Martac rated it 5 of 5 stars

An amazing book that covers the author (a Chinese-Canadian) returning to China as a student at the tail end of the Cultural Revolution.

Her stories are spooky at times--just the mentality of people and how people act--and the way her own attitudes change is very showing of what might have happened to people in China the whole time.

I love that the book covers past the Cultural Revolution to modern day.

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Sep 29, 2010 Polly rated it 5 of 5 stars

Why: before my trip to China 7/09. Actually I was reading it on the plane to China. My guide book suggested I do not bring any controversial or political books into the country, but I hadn't finished it yet, so it came with me.
Review: Excellent. Ms Wong is Canadian, and lived in China during the cultural revolution. It is astonishing how the Chinese were molded and manipulated by crazy politics.

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About 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 Trave...more 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 March From Mao to Now, was named one of Time magazine’s top ten books of 1996 and remains banned in China. It has been translated into Swedish, Finnish, Dutch and Japanese, and optioned for a feature film.

Jan Wong is a third-generation Canadian, born and raised in Montreal. She first went to China in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution as one of only two Westerners permitted to enrol at Beijing University. There, she renounced rock music, wielded a pneumatic drill at a factory and hauled pig manure in the paddy fields. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War in China. During those six years in China, she learned fluent Mandarin and earned a degree in Chinese history.

From 1988 to 1994, Jan Wong returned as China correspondent for The Globe and Mail. In reporting on the tumultuous new era of capitalist reforms under Deng Xiaoping, she reacquainted herself with old friends and enemies from her radical past. In 1989, she dodged bullets in Tiananmen Square, fought off a kidnapping attempt and caught the Chinese police red-handed driving her stolen Toyota as a squad car. (They gave it back.)

She returned to China in 1999 to make a documentary and to research her second book, Jan Wong’s China: Reports from a Not-So-Foreign Correspondent. It tells the story of China’s headlong rush to capitalism and offers fresh insight into a country that is forever changing.

Jan Wong lives with her husband and two sons in Toronto where she is a reporter at The Globe and Mail. The best of her weekly celebrity-interview columns, “Lunch With,” which ran for five years, have been published in a book of the same name.

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