by Dori Jones Yang | Sep 12, 2020 | China Insights
By Dori Jones Yang Joe Biden’s website details forty-six plans he has for resolving vital issues; not one outlines a clear policy toward China. Yet China is a rising power and ought to be this nation’s top priority in foreign policy. The stakes are high. When a rising...
by Dori Jones Yang | Sep 5, 2020 | China Insights
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: The Worker, the Factory, and the Future of the World, by Dexter Roberts In this thought-provoking new book, experienced BusinessWeek journalist Dexter Roberts predicts a dystopian future for China: an “ever more anemic economy,”...
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...
