Arresting ... a family history that exposes China's authoritarian regime and an era of repression - Financial Times

A touching family memoir... about an immigrant's yearning to understand his heritage and his family - The Spectator

A sprawling, complex morality tale, sweeping us along. - Wall Street Journal

A brilliant personal account of China's borderlands and peoples-Uyghurs,Kazakhs, Mongols, Tibetans ... full of insight and compassion -- Francis Fukuyama

Finely crafted ... At the Edge of Empire is valuable both on a political and personal level, and opens up the complexities of Chinese politics and Chinese life in a way that general readers will find fascinating ... deeply satisfying -- John Simpson - Guardian

Astonishing ... A humane, moving story against a massive canvas of China's rise to power -- Rana Mitter, author - China’s Good War

Utterly gripping and original ... an unforgettable account of the country's recent past and present -- Julia Lovell, Professor of Modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London and author - Maoism: A Global History

This sparkling book ... tells a story of greater China that is both intimately personal and fundamentally global, a journey steeped in trauma, nostalgia, and even poetry that only [Wong's] reporting talents could conjure -- Ishaan Tharoor, foreign affairs columnist - Washington Post

In the age of the instant expert, Edward Wong is the real thing ... [A] blend of epic family memoir and deeply insightful reporting on the rise of an increasingly autocratic China under Xi Jinping -- Edward Luce, Financial Times columnist and author - The Retreat of Western Liberalism

A fascinating read ... a beautifully-written personal account of China's rise to a superpower ... vividly told -- Hsiao-Hung Pai, journalist and author - Scattered Sand: The Story of China's Rural Migrants

Edward Wong's exquisite family chronicle achieves a level of humane illumination that only one of America's finest reporters on China could deliver ... A profound story of modern China itself -- Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author - Age of Ambition

Edward Wong is about as knowledgeable a guide to China as a reader could ever hope to find ... [Brings] it all vividly to life in a way no other book on China has for me -- Barbara Demick, author - Eat the Buddha and Nothing to Envy

A seamless and engaging hybrid narrative that reminds us it's people who write history -- Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society and author of more than a dozen books on China, including the recent novel - My Old Home

It is rare for a book to combine past and present, personal history and the history of a vast nation with such thoughtfulness, grace, and panache -- Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author - Our Country Frien