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An 8 page overview of the book by Jan Wong. Wong, a Canadian ethnic Chinese, lived in China during the 1960s and 1970s. Although she had lived a life of privilege in Canada and could not even speak the Chinese language, she manages to provide a unique and unmatched account of one of the most turbulent time in Chinese history. The author of this paper balances out her account with the facts and figures of more traditional historic sources. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Long March from Mao to Now" is a first-person account of the Chinese cultural revolution of the 1970s. Wongs book is most notable in the fact that it recounts
the experiences of revolution from the eyes of someone who lived there. Interestingly, however, although Wong is indeed Chinese, she is a Canadian ethnic Chinese, a second generation ethnic
Chinese in fact who enjoyed a life of privilege in Montreal not poverty in the third world chaos of prerevolution China. Some have contended that this background somehow taints
her work. The contention of this paper is that while Wongs background is something that should be taken into consideration while reading her work, it adds to its uniqueness
rather than tarnishes its value. Jan Wong lived in worked in China during two separate occasions. The first of these occasions spanned
six years while she was a student at Beijing University and the second for another six year span when she served as a reporter for the Toronto Globe and Mail.
She personally witnessed such events as the Tiananamen massacre and was privy to interviews with such political dissidents as Wei Jingsheng and Ren Wanding. Despite these accomplishments many
continue to fixate on that fact that although Jan Wong looks the part to cover the Chinese people whose fate she found herself fascinated with, she did not even speak
the language of the very peoples whose revolution she was detailing. We are forced to admit therefore, that what we have here is essentially an ethnographic account of a
time and a people that falls much in step with the pace of anthropological literature of previous generations, an account which is written about a culture by an individual from
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