Tickets are $10, with all proceeds to our writer-in-residence program.
Jan Wong worked for the Globe and Mail, serving as Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994, when she returned to write from Canada. In 1996, she published Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, which was promptly banned in China. After a return trip in the late nineties, she produced a second book entitled Jan Wong’s China, a somewhat less personal account of social life, the economy, and politics in modern-day China. Subsequent books include Lunch With Jan Wong, Jan Wong (2001), Beijing Confidential: A Tale of Comrades Lost and Found Doubleday Canada, and her newest title Out of the Blues: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption, and Yes Happiness. Ms. Wong will read from and discuss Out of the Blues over lunch at Historic Joy Kogawa House.
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