Dori Jones Yang is an American author and journalist specializing in topics related to China.

Works

Dori Jones Yang's most widely read book is ''Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time'' (1997), co-authored with

Howard Schultz Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) is an American businessman and author who served as both chairman and CEO of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and as interim CEO since 2022. Schultz also owned the Seattle SuperSonics baske ...

, chairman and CEO of Starbucks. The book was translated into ten languages and reached several bestseller lists. In 2000, she wrote a book for children called ''The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang'', which won the Pleasant T. Rowland Prize for Fiction for Girls and the Skipping Stones Honor Award for multicultural and international books in 2001. Her historical novel, ''Daughter of Xanadu'', was published by Random House/Delacorte Press in January 2011. Is set in the time of Marco Polo and

Khubilai Khan Kublai ; Mongolian script: ; (23 September 1215 – 18 February 1294), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Shizu of Yuan and his regnal name Setsen Khan, was the founder of the Yuan dynasty of China and the fifth khagan-emperor of th ...

. Her second children's book, ''The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball'', won the 2017 Freeman Book Award for books about Asia in the young adult/high school literature category. It also won five other awards. Her 2020 memoir, When the Red Gates Opened: A Memoir of China's Reawakening, documents her eight years as a Business Week correspondent covering China from 1982 to 1990.

Biography

Born in 1954 as Dorothy E. Jones in Youngstown, Ohio, Yang studied at

Hathaway Brown School Hathaway Brown, commonly referred to as HB, is an all-girls private school located in Shaker Heights, Ohio. The school serves pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students. Hathaway Brown is a member of the National Coalition of Girls' Schools, ...

in Cleveland, earned a bachelor's degree in European history at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

and earned a master's degree in international relations from

Johns Hopkins University Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 1876, Johns Hopkins is the oldest research university in the United States and in the western hemisphere. It consi ...

. She studied Mandarin Chinese and taught English in Singapore on a Princeton-in-Asia fellowship. She traveled extensively throughout East and Southeast Asia, as well as Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran. Yang trained in journalism at the Youngstown Vindicator, National Observer, The Daily Princetonian, and China Business Review. She joined Business Week in 1981 and worked there for fifteen years, as an international business editor in New York, bureau manager in Hong Kong (1982–1990) and bureau manager in Seattle (1990–1995). She covered the Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing in June 1989. After marrying Paul Yang in 1985, she began writing under the byline of Dori Jones Yang. She worked as West Coast business and technology correspondent for U.S. News & World Report from 1999 to 2001.Milliken, Peter H. “Writing Advice: Demonstrate initiative, persistence, author says.” Youngstown Vindicator, January 28, 2001.

References

External links

Dori Jones Yang official website

Jones Yang author page on Amazon.com
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