Recent Work
As of 2009, Wong was an occasional Friday host on The Current on CBC Radio 1.
In 2010, Wong was Visiting Irving Chair of Journalism at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and is currently an assistant professor there. She writes a column for The Chronicle-Herald in Halifax, the largest independently owned newspaper in Canada, as well as for Toronto Life and Chatelaine. A British documentary company is planning a film based on her book, Beijing Confidential (published in the U.K. under the title Chinese Whispers).
Her new book, Out of the Blue: A Memoir of Workplace Depression, Recovery, Redemption and, Yes, Happiness, is a memoir of her experience with clinical depression where Jan Wong described in detail the backlash she received immediately after her article published and how the Globe and Mail management, in her view, abandoned her in the face of the torrent of negative reactions from all sides. She found the 'exact moment I began my descent into depression' when she was shattered by racial attack. This book was self-published after Doubleday, the publisher of her previous books, pulled out mere days before print although Doubleday denied any legal interference from The Globe.. It was released May 5, 2012.
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