YCW London Book Club: At the Edge of Empire

• Date: Thursday 20th March 2025
• Arrival time: 6:15pm
• Book Club start time: 6:30pm
• Venue: Old China Hand, 8 Tysoe St, London EC1R 4RQ

Join the London Young China Watchers community for our next Book Club of 2025. This month's pick is At the Edge of Empire, by Edward Wong.

Don’t worry if you don’t manage to finish it by 20th March - if you’re interested, we would love to see you there! The Club is very relaxed and welcomes new and existing YCW members.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions.

ABOUT THE BOOK

At the Edge of Empire, by Edward Wong

'Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find' Barbara Demick

In 1962, Edward Wong's father, disillusioned with Communism, fled China for Hong Kong and later the USA. From then on, he rarely spoke of his homeland, or his years crisscrossing the country in Mao's People's Liberation Army.

Much later, Edward became Beijing bureau chief for The New York Times, and was drawn into investigating his father's past even as he assessed a resurgent China under Xi Jinping. Witnessing civil rights struggles in Xinjiang, Tibet and Hong Kong, Wong reached a deeper understanding of his family and the nation. This chronicle of nearly a century of momentous change reveals China as it catapulted into the superpower age.

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