 |  | | | Jan Wong | 05 Mar 2009 | | |
 Searching for forgiveness in Beijing
In 1972, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong was one of only two Westerners admitted to Beijing University. One day, a Chinese student, Yin Luoyi, sought Jan’s assistance in going to the United States. Jan, then a starry-eyed Maoist reported Yin to the authorities, and Yin promptly disappeared. Thirty-three years later, with the guilt of her actions weighing heavily on her shoulders, Jan returned to China to look for Yin. She tells Jenni about her search for a woman whose name she couldn’t fully remember, in a country with a population of 1.3 billion.
Chinese Whispers by Jan Wong is published by Atlantic Books ISBN: 9781843549741
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