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Vivian Yang: Author, Journalist & Public Speaker

Portrait of a Yang Aritist

Japanese Edition Cover
Cover of Japanese edition of "Shanghai Girl" inspired by photo on far right

In front of a Mao statue
Under Mao on the university campus my parents taught. Mom's bicycle is in the background,

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University faculty ID
First work ID: 22-year-old university teacher in Shanghai

Vivian Yang (pronounced "young") is a novelist, TV commentator, and public speaker. She is a top winner in the June 2007 WNYC-New York Public Radio Leonard Lopate Essay Contest. Her winning entry is an adapted excerpt from her second novel in English, SHANGHAI QUARTER-BLOOD, about a mixed-race beauty wading through the 1970s and 1980s’ Shanghai during its Communist heyday and beyond. A native of Shanghai, China where she taught English and journalism in her undergraduate alma mater before getting an M.A. degree in the U.S., she lives in New York.

"Shanghai Girl" U.S. edition. Click here.

"Shanghai Girl" Japanese edition. Click here.