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A column by Jan Wong of The Globe and Mail, reprinted in Lunch With Jan Wong notably portrayed Johnston as somewhat difficult and irascible.
* William Chong Wong – Former Director of Internal Revenue Service ( 1990 – 92 ), Subsecretary of Treasury ( 1993 ), Subsecretary of Finance and Budget ( Feb. 2002 – September 2004 ), Secretary of Finance ( Oct. 2004 – Jan 2006 ), Secretary of Finance ( Jan 2010 – present ).
Guest hosts are usually CBC personalities such as Maureen Taylor, Adrienne Arsenault, Nancy Wilson, Erica Johnson, Ian Hanomansing and Anthony Germain, although other Canadian journalists, including Haroon Siddiqui, Jan Wong and David Frum, have also appeared.
His son Norman, an American draft dodger who joined him in China during the Vietnam War, stayed behind in China for several years and met and later married Jan Wong, a Canadian student who later became a prominent journalist.
* Red China Blues: My Long March from Mao to Now, Jan Wong, Doubleday, 1997, trade paperback, 416 pages, ISBN 0-385-48232-9 ( Contains, besides extensive autobiographical material, an eyewitness account of the Tiananmen crackdown and the basis for an estimate of the number of casualties.
At this time Leung Jan continued his studies, and in some oral traditions at this time Jan along side his second teacher Wong Wah Bo, created the three hand forms which are the main vehicle for transmission of the Wing Chun Kuen system.
In a variation of the Oral tradition by Pan Nam, Leung Jan started learning from Wong Wah Bo first and than continued training with Leung Yee Tai when Wong went back to Opera performance when the Ban was Lifted around 1869.
In 1885 ( or 1898, depending on the account ), at the age of 73, Leung Jan retired to his native village of Kulo, Heshan county, where he taught the Wing Chun System to a few local students, such as Wong Sum Wah, Leung Bak Cheung, and Yik Ying.
Leung Yee-tai, Wong Wah-Bo, and Leung Jan, were all portrayed in the 1981 Sammo Hung film, The Prodigal Son.
Game of Death () is a 1978 Hong Kong martial arts action crime thriller film co-written ( under the pseudonym Jan Spears with Raymond Chow ) and directed by Robert Clouse and starring Bruce Lee, Kim Tai-jong, Yuen Biao, Gig Young, Dean Jagger, Colleen Camp, Robert Wall, Hugh O ' Brian, Dan Inosanto, Mel Novak, Sammo Hung, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Han-Jae Ji and Casanova Wong.
After Lunch with Jan Wong was retired in 2002, Wong moved on to other journalistic roles with The Globe and Mail.
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.
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.
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