My little red book, Zhang Xin: On the Return to China was published in May 2006 by Pinto Books.
It is now available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble’s online and Forbes Bookclub. You can also sample it at Google.
My recent interview with BlogReader is published.
Zhang Xin: On the Return to China chronicles Zhang’s meteoric rise from a run-of-the-mill Wall Street banker to the poster child of China’s new business elite. Coming full circle from an impoverished childhood in the shadow of Mao’s Cultural Revolution in China to the campus of Sussex and Cambridge in “green and pleasant” England to the frontline of international finance - Wall Street - in New York and back to her hometown - Beijing, Zhang’s personal odyssey can be read as a vignette for both the generation of Chinese who followed a similar trajectory and a modern China that is coming of age. “Carefully researched and meticulously rendered in a continuous narrative, the book engages the reader in an exciting journey of Zhang Xin’s return to China.”
Last but not least, it opens a window onto the psychology of Zhang’s peers who remain in the West, their struggle to manage their identity and adjust to the new China.