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D. Seligman is am award-winning writer, a historian and a career “China hand.” He holds an
undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton University and a master's degree from
Harvard University. Fluent in Mandarin,
he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China for eight years and reads
and writes Chinese. He has worked as a legislative assistant to a
member of the U.S. Congress, lobbied the Chinese government on
behalf of American business, managed a multinational public
relations agency in China, served as spokesperson and communications
director for a Fortune 50 company and taught English in Taiwan and
Chinese in Washington, DC.
He is the author of nine books, including
The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the
Riots that Shook New York City, which won gold medals in the
2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 2020-21 Reader Views
Literary Awards; The Third Degree: The Triple Murder that Shook
Washington and Changed American Criminal Justice, which won a
gold medal in the 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards and The
First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo.
He is also co-author of the best-selling Cultural Revolution
Cookbook and Now You're Talking Mandarin Chinese.
He has published articles in
the Asian Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, the Washington Post,
the Seattle Times, the China Business Review,
Tablet Magazine, The
Forward, China Heritage Quarterly, The Cleaver
Quarterly,
Bucknell Magazine, Howard Magazine, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center blog,
the New York History blog, the Granite Studio blog and Traces,
the Journal of the Indiana Historical Society. He has also created
several websites on historical and genealogical topics. He lives in
Washington, DC. You can visit the author's website
here and his
Facebook page
here.
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