A Comrade Lost and Found : A Beijing Story (Hardcover)

from Scotland

Definitely not in the same class as Red China Blues, which was an excellent book by Wong, this entry is basically a travelogue. Still, it is very readable with Wong's wit, humour, and ironic sense. It should be taken for what it is though, not a definitive history of Beijing, but one person's exp...

from Scotland

Definitely not in the same class as Red China Blues, which was an excellent book by Wong, this entry is basically a travelogue. Still, it is very readable with Wong's wit, humour, and ironic sense. It should be taken for what it is though, not a definitive history of Beijing, but one person's exp...

from SigmundFraud

Not a great book but worth reading if you are going to Beijing as I am. The story is based on her trip to Beijing in 2006 so I expect things have continued to change rapidly in a decade. Her Beijing sound plastic and nouveau riche. So much of the old Beijing has been destroyed as they rushed to p...

from pmarshall

Wong was the one of the first two Westerns to be admitted to Beijing University in 1973. Brought up in a middle class family in Montreal she became a 'starry-eyed' Maoist in China. To the point that when asked for help to get to America by another student she reported this to the authorities and ...

from mstrust

Wong is a Canadian journalist of Chinese heritage who has been a correspondent for many major newspapers around the world. But in the early seventies, just out of high school, she went to Beijing to continue her education at Beijing University. The Cultural Revolution was in full swing and Wong w...