by Dori Jones Yang | Sep 26, 2020 | China Insights, Featured, Intrepid Women
When the Red Gates Opened was published on September 22 and immediately became a #1 new release on Amazon in two categories. During the week of publication, I celebrated with two fantastic events: fun launch event with dozens of friends and family sponsored by Brick...
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 | May 17, 2020 | Intrepid Women
If it weren’t for the travel disruptions due to Covid-19, I would have been in Tashkent yesterday (on my birthday) and Samarkand today. I’m feeling sad that I can’t be there, but someday we’ll travel again! Tashkent is now the modern, sprawling...
by Dori Jones Yang | May 8, 2020 | Intrepid Women
Ten years ago, I researched Issyk-Kul, a beautiful lake in the Heavenly Mountains of Central Asia, where I set a dramatic scene, the climax of the story of Daughter of Xanadu and Son of Venice. Today, May 8, I was supposed to visit that lake, at long last, as part of...
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...
