Nancy's Bookshelf: A son's quest to discover the China of his father's youth

By Nancy Wiegman,

Published September 4, 2024 at 3:40 PM PDT

Edward Wong is the son of Chinese immigrants and was a diplomatic correspondent for the New York Times in Beijing.

With his latest book, "At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China," he investigates his father's mysterious past in China.

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Nancy Wiegman

Nancy Wiegman has a master's degree in French linguistics from Indiana University and taught yoga and foreign languages at CSU Fresno and the College of Charleston before moving to Chico in 1990.

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Matt Fidler is a producer and sound designer with over 15 years’ experience producing nationally distributed public radio programs. He has worked for shows such as Freakonomics Radio, Selected Shorts, Studio 360, The New Yorker Radio Hour and The Takeaway. In 2017, Matt launched the language podcast Very Bad Words, hitting the #28 spot in the iTunes podcast charts.

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