What does one owe their country? A family's 'reckoning on China'

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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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. What does it mean to love country over party?

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0:50.0	Edward Wong is a long time award winning correspondent for the New York Times. For more than 25 years he's reported from nearly 100 countries on diplomacy,
0:56.0	espionage, the economy, and turning points in history. From 2008 to 2016 he was the Times Beijing Bureau Chief.
1:05.0	Today he joins us to share a story that's both historical in scale and deeply personal.
1:12.0	It's the story of Wong's father who grew up in Mao's
1:15.9	communist China was once an ardent believer in the CCP but who then ended up fleeing
1:21.6	to America and the Washington DC suburbs as a young man.
1:25.0	That story is written in the new memoir called At the Edge of Empire,
1:30.0	a family's reckoning with China.
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