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In Chinese, the word for crisis is weiji, composed of the character wei, which means danger, and ji, which means opportunity.
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Birth: | 15th August, 1952 |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Profession: | Journalist |
Jan Wong was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is a Canadian journalist. She worked for The Globe and Mail, serving as Beijing correspondent from 1988 to 1994, when she returned to write from Canada. She earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. She also studied at McGill University and Peking University. She has written for The New York Times, Montreal Gazette, The Boston Globe, and The Wall Street Journal before joining the Globe and Mail as a business reporter. She has written several books include: Red China Blues, Jan Wong's China, Lunch With, Beijing Confidential, Chinese Whispers, and Out of the Blue. She married with Norman Shulman in 1976. The couple have two sons: Ben and Sam. She lives with her husband and two sons in Toronto.
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