Daughter of Xanadu - Dori Jones Yang [114]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dori Jones Yang sought out faraway places to research this book. In Mongolia, she drank airag in a ger, rode camels, and practiced archery. She located the almost-impossible-to-find ruins of Xanadu and investigated the site of Khubilai Khan’s palace at Khanbalik, now the Forbidden City in Beijing.
Originally from Ohio, she explored Asia as a foreign correspondent for BusinessWeek magazine, based in Hong Kong, for eight years. She studied history at Princeton, international relations at Johns Hopkins, and Mandarin Chinese in Singapore. Her first book, about Starbucks Coffee Company, was translated into ten languages, and her second book, The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang, which reveals the inner life of an immigrant girl from China, won two awards. She lives near Seattle with her Chinese husband, Paul Yang, who inspired this story of cross-cultural love.
Find out more at her website, dorijonesyang.com.