Jan Wong

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jan Wong
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Aug 15, 1952(1952-08-15)
Age	72
Birthplace	Montreal
Country	Canada
Birth City	Quebec
Horoscope	Leo

Jan Wong Biography

Jan Wong is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on August 15, 1952 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Jan Wong, Chinese: Huang Ming Zhen; pinyin as Huang Mingzhen; born August 15, 1952 in Taishan. She is a Canadian journalist with Guangdong ancestry. Wong was a correspondent for The Globe and Mail in Beijing from 1988 to 1994. She then returned to Canada to continue writing. Bill Wong, a Montreal businessman, is Wong’s daughter. He founded Bill Wong’s buffet in 1993 and the House of Wong earlier, which was the first Chinese restaurant outside of Chinatown.

Wong’s Lunch with… column in The Globe and Mail from 1996 to 2002 was her most well-known. In it, she had lunch with a celebrity who was often, but not always, Canadian. Her Lunch columns are often remembered for her theatrical take on the intimate, titillating side her lunch companions. Margaret Atwood was shown as a prickly, unhappy diva who refused lunch. Gene Simmons showed the size of his penis. Wong invited a homeless woman to lunch in one of her most renowned Lunch columns.

Public outcry and political condemnation, and publicity soon followed. The Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society lodged a complaint to the Press Council of Quebec and Quebec Premier Jean Charest called the article a “disgrace” and, in an open letter to the Globe, wrote that it was a testimony to her ignorance of Canadian values which demonstrated a profound incomprehension of Quebec society. Charest demanded an apology from Wong to all Québécois. Prime Minister Stephen Harper denounced Wong’s article in a letter to the newspaper published on September 21, 2006 saying that her “argument is patently absurd and without foundation.” On September 20, the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion requesting an apology for the column.

Wong published the article “Get under the desk” in The Globe and Mail on September 16, 2006. In it, the author drew a link between the actions of Marc Lépine, Valery Fabrikant and Kimveer Gill, assassins of the shootings of the École Polytechnique, Concordia University and Dawson College respectively, and the existence in Quebec of bill 101, the “decades-long linguistic struggle”. She implied a relation between the fact that the three were not old-stock Québécois and the murders they committed, since they were, according to Wong, alienated in a Quebec society concerned with “racial purity”.

The paper sent her to China in 1988. She worked there for six years, including covering the Tiananmen Massacre. Red China Blues was her account of her experiences in China. It was soon banned in China. She returned to China in late nineties and produced Jan Wong’s China, which was a more personal account of modern-day China’s social life, economy, politics, and culture.

Jan Wong Net Worth

Jan Wong is one of the richest Journalist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jan Wong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wong started her journalism career in the late 1970s when she was employed as a news assistant for Fox Butterfield, the China correspondent of the New York Times. Wong grew tired of the Party ideology and returned from Beijing to Canada. After graduating from Columbia with a master’s in journalism, Wong joined the Globe and Mail as a reporter for business.

Wong met Norman Shulman, her future husband, while she was studying in China. She married him in 1976. They have two sons, Ben (b. 1991) and Sam (b. 1993). Shulman was an American draft dodger during the Vietnam Era. He had joined Jack Shulman in China with his father and stayed there until Jack and Ruth fled China during the Cultural Revolution. Shulman was a text-polisher at China Reconstructs, a Chinese propaganda magazine.

After Lunch with Jan Wong was retired in 2002, Wong moved on to other journalistic roles with The Globe and Mail. In 2006, Wong attracted attention by imitating the work of Barbara Ehrenreich and going undercover as a cleaning lady in wealthy Toronto homes. While employed by the Globe and Mail as a reporter, Jan Wong impersonated a maid, and then wrote about her experiences in a five-part series on low-income living. The newspaper published the stories in the spring of 2006. Members of a Markham family sued the newspaper and Wong, alleging they suffered “significant embarrassment and mental distress.”

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Her latest book is Apron Strings: Navigating Food And Family In France, Italy, And China. Published in September, 2017, it was named a must-read book by both the CBC and the Toronto Star. As Chris Nuttall-smith (top chef Canada) wrote: “a sharp-minded — and famously sharp-tongued — reporter drags her fully grown, chef-trained son on a homestay cooking tour of France, Italy, and China. What could possibly not go wrong? Inquisitive, caustic, delicious, and can’t-look- away entertaining, this is Jan Wong at the peak of her powers.”

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Jan Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Jan Wong celebrates birthday on August 15 of every year.