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Author:
Edward Wong
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
June 25, 2024
A story of modern China that weaves family memoir with vital reporting by the New York Times diplomatic correspondent.
What The Reviewers Say
Wong skilfully weaves his father’s and his uncle’s stories into an account of his own experiences in China, in a way that is deeply satisfying. At the Edge of Empire is valuable both on a political and a personal level.
Told with a filial devotion that is consistently tender, never mawkish.
A family narrative, but one to which he consciously brings a reporter’s sensibility.
Ambitious and unusual.
