Arresting ... a family history that exposes China's authoritarian regime and an era of repression * Financial Times * A touching family memoir... about an immigrant's yearning to understand his heritage and his family * The Spectator * A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along. * Wall Street Journal * A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples-Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Mongols, Tibetans ... full of insight and compassion -- Francis Fukuyama Finely crafted ... At the Edge of Empire is valuable both on a political and personal level, and opens up the complexities of Chinese politics and Chinese life in a way that general readers will find fascinating ... deeply satisfying -- John Simpson * Guardian * Astonishing ... A humane, moving story against a massive canvas of China's rise to power -- Rana Mitter, author * Chinas Good War * Utterly gripping and original ... an unforgettable account of the country's recent past and present -- Julia Lovell, Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London and author * Maoism: A Global 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 -- Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs columnist * Washington Post * 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 -- Edward Luce, Financial Times columnist and author * The Retreat of Western Liberalism * A fascinating read ... a beautifully-written personal account of China's rise to a superpower ... vividly told -- Hsiao-Hung Pai, journalist and author * Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants * 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 -- Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author * Age of Ambition * 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 -- Barbara Demick, author * Eat the Buddha and Nothing to Envy * A seamless and engaging hybrid narrative that reminds us it's people who write history -- Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society and author of more than a dozen books on China, including the recent novel * My Old Home * 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 -- Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author * Our Country Friends * 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 -- Te-Ping Chen, Wall Street Journal correspondent and author * Land of Big Numbers * 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 -- John Delury, author * Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIAs Covert War in China * An absorbing new memoir [ which] explores the country through a triple prism of history, geography and ancestry... stories are beautifully told and expose the contradictions of modern China * The Economist * This book's power comes from Wong's broad sense of the patterns of Chinese history, reflected in the lives of a father and son, and from his ability to toggle effortlessly between the epic and the intimate * The Atlantic * In telling this personal story about family memory, exile and return, the book also takes in the breadth of [ China's] evolution during the 20th century * Washington Post *
