At the Edge of Empire

Edward Wong is a diplomatic correspondent for The New York Times. In twenty-five years at the Times, he has reported from scores of countries and served as a war correspondent in Iraq and as the Beijing bureau chief. He is the winner of the Livingston Award for international reporting and was on a team of Pulitzer Prize finalists. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and a visiting professor at Princeton University and UC Berkeley. He has done fellowships at the Wilson Center and the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School. Wong speaks on global affairs on television, radio, and podcasts, including CBS, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, BBC, and The Daily. He lives with his family in Washington, DC.

A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples-Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Mongols, Tibetans ... full of insight and compassion
Astonishing ... A humane, moving story against a massive canvas of China's rise to power
Utterly gripping and original ... an unforgettable account of the country's recent past and present
In the age of the instant expert, Edward Wong is the real thing ... [A] blend of epic family memoir and deeply insightful reporting on the rise of an increasingly autocratic China under Xi Jinping
A fascinating read ... a beautifully-written personal account of China's rise to a superpower ... vividly told
Edward Wong's exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America's finest reporters on China could deliver ... A profound story of modern China itself
Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find ... [Brings] it all vividly to life in a way no other book on China has for me
A seamless and engaging hybrid narrative that reminds us it's people who write history
This sparkling book ... tells a story of greater China that is both intimately personal and fundamentally global, a journey steeped in trauma, nostalgia, and even poetry that only [Wong's] reporting talents could conjure
It is rare for a book to combine past and present, personal history and the history of a vast nation with such thoughtfulness, grace, and panache
A true epic and an extraordinary work of reportage. The son of two empires, Edward Wong is admirably clear-eyed in his ability to weave the personal and intimate with the monumental
A masterpiece ... a must-read for anyone with the faintest interest in China, America's relationship with China, and the whole question of empire in the contemporary world