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Jan Wong

Jan Wong is the author of five non-fiction bestsellers, including Out of the Blue and Red China Blues, which was named one of Time magazine's top ten non-fiction books of 1996. (Twenty years later, the book is still in print.) She has won numerous journalism awards and is now a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. A third-generation Canadian, Jan is the eldest daughter of a prominent Montreal restaurateur.

Books by Jan Wong

Apron Strings

Apron Strings

Out of the Blue

Beijing Confidential

The Lucky Ones

Red China Blues (reissue)

Jan Wong's China