A family's 'reckoning with China'

In a new memoir, New York Times correspondent Edward Wong retraces the complicated story of his father’s life as a zealous young Communist in China to an immigrant in America. And how loyalty to country is different than loyalty to party.

Edward Wong, diplomatic correspondent with the New York Times. He spent nearly a decade as a China correspondent and Beijing bureau chief for the NYTs from 2008 to 2016. He’s the author of “At the Edge of Empire: A Family’s Reckoning with China.”

From AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE: A Family’s Reckoning with China, by Edward Wong, published by Viking, an imprint of the Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © 2024 by Edward Wong.