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At the Edge of Empire

Edward Wong

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At the Edge of Empire

At the Edge of Empire was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing. In 1962, Edward Wong's father, disillusioned with Communism, fled China for Hong Kong and later the USA. From then on, he rarely spoke of his homeland, or his years crisscrossing the country in Mao's People's Liberation Army. Much later, Edward became Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, and was drawn into investigating his father's past even as he assessed a resurgent China under Xi Jinping. Witnessing civil rights struggles in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, Wong reached a deeper understanding of his family and the nation. This chronicle of nearly a century of momentous change reveals China as it catapulted into the superpower age.

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Publisher
Profile Books Limited
Year
2024
ISBN-13
9781984877406
Genre
Biography & Memoir
Topics
China's modern historyFamily history and identityCivil rights in Xinjiang, Tibet, and Hong Kong

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