Jan Wong

Jan Wong's China (eBook, ePUB)

Reports From A Not-So-Foreign Correspondent

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As the fiftieth anniversary of the People's Republic of China approaches on October 1, 1999, Jan Wong reflects on her body of work as a foreign correspondent there. Despite the fact that everything is changing, she discovers that not much really changes, and what she wrote several years ago 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. From a peasant tax revolt through the new consumerism (ads on television!) to the closeted world of Chinese gays, Jan Wong's China is a highly personal account of a country in transition. Its perspective is shaped by the author's six-year reporting stint, her life in Beijing in the '70s as a student and a Maoist, and her return visit to China in the spring of 1999. Employing humour and behind-the-scenes detail, Jan Wong brilliantly weaves her adventures into a rich journalistic tapestry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Doubleday Canada
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Altersempfehlung: ab 14 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780385674409
• Artikelnr.: 39207833

Autorenporträt

JAN WONG is a Canadian academic, journalist, and writer. She has worked and written for The Globe and Mail, The New York Times, The Montreal Gazette, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the George Polk Award, National Newspaper Award, New England Press Association Newswoman of the Year Award, and more. She is the author of Lunch with Jan Wong, Beijing Confidential, Jan Wong's China, Red China Blues, Out of the Blue, and Apron Strings. She currently divides her time between Toronto, where she is a columnist for Toronto Life magazine, and Fredericton, where she is a professor in journalism at St. Thomas University and a columnist for the Halifax Chronicle Herald.