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Jan Wong (黄明珍, pinyin: Hu??ng M??ngzhēn) (born 1953 in Montr??al) is a Canada|Canadian journalist of China|Chinese ancestry. Towards the end of the Cultural Revolution period, she left McGill University and flew to China. The optimistic Maoism|Maoist became one of two foreign college students permitted to study at Peking University|Beijing University. Wong, having witnessed Communist China and the Cultural Revolution firsthand, gradually became disillusioned with Party ideology and returned to Canada. She later studied journalism at Columbia University|Columbia, and returned to China for several years as a foreign correspondent for the The Globe and Mail newspaper, where among other things she covered the Tiananmen Massacre. She later chronicled her Chinese experience in a book, Red China Blues, 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.

In the late 1990s, Wong wrote a regular column, "Lunch with Jan Wong", in The Globe and Mail. This column, in which she profiled a celebrity over lunch, further established Wong as a household name in Canadian journalism. Wong was widely criticised for her confrontational style in the column, but its popularity didn't subside.

Wong and her husband of nearly 30 years (since 1976) have two sons: Ben (b. 1991) and Sam (b. 1994).

Last Modified:   2005-11-07