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Dori Jones Yang is an American author and entrepreneur. She is best known for her books about Chinese culture and history, including The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball, The White Swan Express, and The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang. She is also the founder of the nonprofit organization, The China Connection, which works to promote cross-cultural understanding between the United States and China. Born in 1954 in Youngstown, Ohio, Yang graduated from Harvard University in 1976 with a degree in East Asian Studies. She then went on to earn a master's degree in Chinese history from Stanford University in 1979. Yang has written several books about Chinese culture and history, including The Forbidden Temptation of Baseball, The White Swan Express, and The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang. She has also written several books for young readers, including The Great Wall of Lucy Wu, The Year of the Dog, and The Way Home Looks Now. In addition to her writing, Yang is the founder of The China Connection, a nonprofit organization that works to promote cross-cultural understanding between the United States and China. She is also a board member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Yang has been honored with numerous awards, including the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts/National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. She has also been awarded the Chinese American Citizens Alliance National Education Award and the Chinese American Historical Society of Southern California's Lifetime Achievement Award. As of 2021, Dori Jones Yang's net worth is estimated to be roughly $1 million.

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2019

Yang’s latest 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.

2011

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.

2000

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.

1997

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, chairman and CEO of Starbucks. The book was translated into ten languages and reached several bestseller lists.

1985

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.

1981

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.

1954

Born in 1954 as Dorothy E. Jones in Youngstown, Ohio, Yang studied at Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland, earned a bachelor's degree in European history at Princeton University and earned a master's degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. 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.