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At the Edge of Empire
A Family's Reckoning with China: FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025
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FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025 At the Edge of Empire is lauded by the likes of Francis Fukuyama as "a brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples." Edward Wong is praised by Barbara Demick as "about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a...
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At the Edge of Empire
The essential history of modern China, told through the story of one family
The essential history of modern China, told through the story of one family
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FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2025
At the Edge of Empire is lauded by the likes of Francis Fukuyama as "a brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples." Edward Wong is praised by Barbara Demick as "about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find."
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 the 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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ISBN: 9781788162661
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 June 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Profile Books Ltd
Edition: Main
Illustration: 16PP SECTION B&W
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 36.0mm
Width: 128.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 400g
Pages: 464
About the Author
Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times, where has served as a war correspondent in Iraq and as the Beijing bureau chief. He is the winner of the Livingston Award for international reporting, and has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.
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