China Re-opening, Memories of Open Hearts, Open Gates and Open Minds (May 14, 2021)
A personal journey from the Mid-West to the Far East
Princeton in Asia and SAIS alumna, Dori Yang, is a former Businessweek correspondent in Asia and author of When the Red Gates Opened. Recalling her front row seat to China’s economic liberalization, she tells us how the foundations for today’s China were really laid down in the 1980s, a decade before Tiananmen Square. As the China story made the front pages of Western media, Dori was experiencing a merger of East and West in her personal life. A prolific author, her 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.