Jan Wong

Red China Blues (reissue) (eBook, ePUB)

My Long March from Mao to Now

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 and roll, hauled pig manure in the paddy fields, and turned in a fellow student who sought her help in getting to the United States. She also met and married the only American draft dodger from the Vietnam War to seek asylum in China. Red China Blues begins as Wong's startling -- and ironic -- memoir of her rocky six-year romance with Maoism that began to sour as she became aware of the harsh realities of Chinese communism and led to her eventual repatriation to the West. Returning to China in the late eighties as a journalist, she covered both the brutal Tiananmen Square crackdown and the tumultuous era of capitalist reforms under Deng Xiaoping. In a wry, absorbing, and often surreal narrative, she relates the horrors that led to her disillusionment with the "worker's paradise." And through the stories of the people -- an unhappy young woman who was sold into marriage, China's most famous dissident, a doctor who lengthens penises -- Wong creates an extraordinary portrait of the world's most populous nation. In setting out to show readers in the Western world what life is like in China, and why we should care, Wong reacquaints herself with the old friends -- and enemies -- of her radical past, and comes to terms with the legacies of her ancestral homeland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Doubleday Canada
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780385674362
• Artikelnr.: 39251654

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.