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Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times. In twenty-five years at the Times, he 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 was on a team of Pulitzer Prize finalists. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a visiting professor at Princeton University and UC Berkeley. He has done fellowships at the Wilson Center and the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.
Edward Wong's exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America's finest reporters on China could deliver. In tracing his father's journey-from Hong Kong to Xinjiang to America-Wong gives us a profound story of modern China itself. Anyone who once was absorbed by the power of Wild Swans will savor this meditation on memory, history, and belonging -- Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author * Age of Ambition * At the Edge of Empire is a splendid journey through 80 years of Chinese history told from the viewpoint of a nonagenarian Chinese American and his son, the former New York Times bureau chief in Beijing. Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find, and the interweaving of the highly personal accounts bring it all vividly to life in a way no other China book has for me -- Barbara Demick, author * Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town * Ed Wong has masterfully merged the story of his father's life in Hong Kong, China and the US with all that he himself has seen and heard as a foreign correspondent in Beijing. He's created a seamless an informative hybrid narrative that reminds us it's people who write history -- Orville Schell, author * My Old Home * I am the son of two empires. I was born in Washington. My parents grew up in villages in southern China. At age 35, I moved to Beijing as a correspondent for The New York Times, and the country and my parents' lives opened up to me in ways I could never have expected. I had just spent three-and-a-half years reporting on the Iraq War, and in doing that I had seen the abyss of the American imperial project. If any power represented a new vision of the future, surely it was China. And with so many things in which one invests blind hope, the course it took was in reality much different -- from the Prologue
