Wendy Liu
Her most recent book is "Everything I Understand about America I Learned in Chinese Proverbs," a colletion of essays. It was published in January 2009 by Homa & Sekey Books.
You can preview and order it here:
http://www.homabooks.com/general/
books/east_asia/china/1056.php
She translated into Chinese "China Dawn," a novel by the late Robert L. Duncan, a book she loved too much to just read it. "中国拂晓," the Chinese version, was published in December 2008 in Beijing, China by World Affairs Press. You can find it here:
http://www.amazon.cn/mn/detailApp?ref=BO&uid=000-0000000-0000000&asin=B001PDD3GO
She also wrote "Connecting Washington and China--The Story of the Washington State China Relations Council" (iUniverse, November 2005 ), which is very much the story of Washington state's relations with China since 1979. You can preview and order the book, which she updated with a 2009 edition, here: http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/
BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000083138
With Chinese readers in mind, she translated the above book into Chinese: "连接华州与中国--华盛顿州中国交流理事会的故事." You can find it here:
http://www.amazon.cn/dp/bkbk851661
In Jan. this year, 2011, she launched her own website: www.wensinterviews.us, where she posts interviews she conducts of interesting people in U.S.-China and Chinese-American affairs.
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Articles by Wendy Liu
October 06, 2011
It is not that I didn´t know much about Taiwan. I actually knew quite a bit growing up in China, or mainland China: the "treasure island" of the motherland; the territory Zheng Chenggong, the Ming dynasty hero, restored for China from the Dutch; and the province, regrettably, Chiang Kai-shek a...
June 30, 2011
The Chinese government is throwing a big birthday party this 1st of July, celebrating the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.
90 years ago this month, in secrete locations in and around Shanghai, including on a boat, Mao Zedong and twelve other men, representing 57 co...
June 02, 2011
You´ve probably heard China sometimes described in American terms, or place names. Shanghai´s financial district is, for instance, China´s Manhattan, and Tsinghua University, China´s MIT. Here is another one: Chicago on the Yangtze. Do you know, my fellow Seattleites, which c...
April 11, 2011
I was so relieved and glad to hear evolution psychologist Robert Kurzban say that every one of us was a hypocrite by nature. Relieved that all conflicting thoughts in my head were now justified. Glad that I could now call out, without qualms, hypocrisy I see from China to the U.S. That´s right, Chin...
February 02, 2011
I have been very reluctant to get in on the Tiger mom craze, as parenting is not really a topic I am interested in. But as a mom and of Chinese background, especially when the Chinese new year of the Rabbit is taking over the Tiger, I guess I could say a few words.
First of all, I was surprised a...
January 17, 2011
Dear President Hu,
First of all, welcome back to the U.S.!
I am writing from Seattle, WA, where you visited in 2006 on your first trip to the U.S. as the president of China. As you said well, the Evergreen State and Emerald City served as important American gateways to China. We Washingtonians...
October 15, 2010
Liu Xiaobo´s win of the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize brought perhaps the most contradictory feeling one could have: you want to cheer and cry at the same time. Cheer because of the international recognition of Liu Xiaobo and the struggle he embodies for a free and democratic China. Cry because of the hars...
July 27, 2010
As dubbed China´s "summer of labor unrest" by a Forbes article, the past couple of months have seen a wave of strikes in China, from Foxconn where Apple´s iPod, iPhone and iPad are made to Honda´s and Toyota´s Chinese parts factories. The workers demanded higher pay and succeeded!
Somehow, the ev...
April 06, 2010
"Is China friend or foe?" The question has been asked for many years in this country without a satisfactory answer. Similar pairs of definitions attempted included partner or competitor, ally or rival, opportunity or threat, etc. There was the Chimerica marriage theory where China saved and Americ...
January 18, 2010
A veteran China watcher is allegedly to have said this once, "China ultimately disappoints." I have resisted using this quote for as long as I could over the years, until now. By sentencing dissident Liu Xiaobo to 11 years in prison, China, or rather the Chinese communist party/government, truly ult...
September 30, 2009
When I was an elementary schoolgirl in China, wearing a red scarf as a member of the Communist Young Pioneers, I looked up to an exclusive group of people, including my brother: those who were born in 1949, the year the People´s Republic was founded. The "49ners" never failed to brag about their age...
July 06, 2009
As I was sitting down to write this piece, news broke that Sarah Palin was resigning as governor of Alaska. No, I said to myself, the wrong governor! I was hoping it was Mark Sanford resigning as governor of South Carolina and announcing that he would leave his wife Jenny and go be with Maria in Arg...
April 23, 2009
I may not know very well the significance behind the 50-some-year-old saying: "What´s good for General Motors is good for the country". I also do not quite follow the complex discussions over GM´s probable bankruptcy. But I have no doubt about what I have seen in GM in the past few months of this on...
January 29, 2009
People say that opposites attract. That was certainly true with the US and China 30 years ago when they tied the diplomatic knot. People also say that couples can grow to look like each other after. That may also be true with the US and China today, joined at the hip, economically at least, after 30...
December 06, 2008
If "Change We Can Believe In" is the theme of American life this year, "Change We Can See" should have been that of China´s for the last thirty.
This month marks the 30th anniversary of China´s Reform and Opening Up program, which launched China´s market economy and opened it up for foreign inves...
November 02, 2008
Never in my American life did I expect to be reminded of a slogan I grew up with: "Only socialism could save China." Except this time it was America, or American economy, that was being saved.
But there it was, the US government´s $850 billion bail out package of the Wall Street: the nationalizat...
September 30, 2008
October 1st this year marks the 59th anniversary of the founding of the People´s Republic of China in 1949 that began the socialist new China. The celebration also coincides with that of the 30th anniversary of the Reform and Opening Up program launched in 1978 that has turned China into a pow...
July 29, 2008
As a strong anti-Iraq War voter, I am no fan of President Bush. I feel as bad for the American military and Iraqi civilian lives lost as I enjoy late night comedians ridiculing the President.
But when President Bush announced during the recent G8 summit in Japan that he was going to Beijing to at...
June 04, 2008
The whole China stopped for three minutes, people, work, traffic, with everybody standing in silence, heads bowed, with only sirens wailing and horns blaring, from Beijing to Nanjing, from Qinghai to Shanghai.
That was on September 18, 1976, the national day of mourning for Mao who had died nine ...
April 12, 2008
Being a Chinese-American, I have written a number of opinions on China-related issues. One reader, however, sharply pointed out in an email what had been missing in my pieces: "You mention the economic progress the Chinese are making but, unfortunately, you make no mention of Tibet."
He was righ...
March 12, 2008
In his last "Letter from China" in The New Yorker, Peter Hessler described how the Chinese were scrambling to trade in their bicycles for cars. He wondered also, in the fast changing Middle Kingdom, how any one knew, for instance, how to run a car rental business where there had been none, or how an...
January 22, 2008
Have you ever seen the Chinese movie "Raise the Red Lantern?" It was a story set in the 1920s´ China about a young woman married as the fourth wife to a wealthy man. Typical of a polygamy marriage, it showed the opulent façade of such an arrangement, the ceremonial raising of red lanterns at n...
December 17, 2007
“Tonight, a massive new recall of dangerous toys imported from communist China,” a prominent CNN anchorman announced, sounding triumphant in his own crusade. “Another batch of killer toys from China is being recalled,” a news service warned in a headline. “The Chinese dipped Ernie and Bert in lead p...
October 31, 2007
With all saints or spirits knocking on our doors this Halloween night, I imagine the mask Vice President Dick Cheney is most scared to see on his porch would be that of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian President.
A few days ago, Mr. Cheney severely declared, “We will not allow Iran to have a nucl...
June 03, 2007
June Fourth of Tiananmen is upon us again, for the eighteenth time since that day in 1989 when the Chinese government crushed the student demonstration with tanks and gunfire. Time may or may not heal, it certainly adds weight. For me, the anniversary is always a time of high mental pressure. No mat...
April 23, 2007
Every spring, there is a “tit-for-tat” ritual between the US and China over human rights.
In March, the State Department issues its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. Started in 1977 when President Carter made human rights the centerpiece of American foreign policy, the reports no...
March 24, 2007
Private property is such an ordinary concept in a free market economy as in the United States, it stirs up no more excitement than the rain in Seattle. But in China, private property has long been the forbidden fruit because all properties in the People’s Republic were supposed to be common. In fact...
February 24, 2007
At a recent Chinese-American event dinner, I had fun chatting with two interesting neighbors at the table. On my left was a seasoned Seattle urban planning consultant. Our conversation started with his tour down China’s Yangtze River last summer, with his marveling at Beijing’s decision to build the...
January 29, 2007
President Bush was the first president I ever voted for, in 2000, upon becoming a US citizen just before that. It was a privilege to vote. I had never voted for any national or regional leader in China, my native country. The presidency of the past six years, especially since the Iraq war, however, ...
Articles by Wendy Liu From Other Sources
July 02, 2010
published in The Seattle Times
June 04, 2009
published in The Seattle Times