Jan Wong (黄明珍, pinyin: Huáng Míngzhēn) is a Canadian journalist of Chinese ancestry. Towards the end of the Cultural Revolution period she was one of two foreign college students permited to study in Beijing. Staying in China, she became a newspaper correspondent for the New York Times and The Globe and Mail. She was a witness to the Tiananmen Massacre. She wrote a book about her Chinese experiences, Red China Blues.

In the late 1990s, Wong wrote a regular column, "Lunch with Jan Wong", in The Globe and Mail. This column, in which Wong profiled a celebrity over lunch, made Wong a household name in Canadian journalism.

Further reading

• Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong, Doubleday, 1997, trade paperback, 416 pages, ISBN 0385482329 (Contains besides extensive autobiographical material an eyewitness account of the Tiananmen Massacre and the basis for a realistic estimate of the number of victims.)
• Jan Wong, Lunch With Jan Wong, Bantam, (June, 2001), trade paperback, ISBN 0385259824

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