by Dori Jones Yang | Aug 8, 2020 | China Insights
For me, the implosion of US-China relations in the past few weeks triggers heartburn and alarm. For decades, reporting and traveling around China, I have cheered the changes that brought greater freedoms and prosperity to the Chinese people. Because Deng Xiaoping...
by Dori Jones Yang | Jun 6, 2020 | China Insights, Intrepid Women
As an American woman married to a Chinese man, I was intrigued when I discovered two recent memoirs by American women who married Chinese men. My memoir, coming out in September, is mainly the story of a young journalist covering China at a pivotal moment of...
by Dori Jones Yang | May 26, 2020 | China Insights, Intrepid Women
Review of How Sweet the Bitter Soup: A Memoir by Lori Qian A young American woman from a struggling family in Chicago goes to China to teach, as a way of earning money. A young Chinese man from a poor rural village in central China goes to a thriving city to look for...
by Dori Jones Yang | Apr 22, 2020 | China Insights
This book is a tour de force. Starting with a single, stunning revelation from her mother, author Helen Zia embarked on years of research, including more than 100 personal talks with survivors and their offspring, interviews with scholars, and deep dives into...
by Dori Jones Yang | Apr 18, 2020 | China Insights
After a good few days in Hong Kong, visiting friends and reminiscing about my life there in the 1980s, I planned to cross the border by land and visit Shenzhen, the city just inside the China border. It was little more than a fishing village until August 1980, when...
by Dori Jones Yang | Apr 13, 2020 | China Insights, Intrepid Women
Okay, so I was planning a trip to China April 1-19 this year—and had to cancel for obvious reasons. I really wanted to go this spring because my memoir about China is coming out this fall, and I was hoping to see what the latest trends are in China. Well, the latest...
