Kaiser Kuo

QUICK FACTS

• born in New York
• graduate of U.C. Berkeley and University of Arizona
• was a part of the band Tang Dynasty from 1988-1999
• currently in the band Spring and Autumn and AC/DC tribute band, The Dirty Deeds
• has written for the Red Herring and has a column in the The Beijinger
• was director of digital strategy for Oglivy China
• is now Baidu's director of international communications
• lives in Beijing with his wife Fanfan and two kids

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Hotties.

Kaiser Kuo (Guo Yiguang) was born in 1966 in New York to immigrant parents and grew up listening to the Who, Led Zeppelin, Peter Gabriel, Sabbath, Iron Maiden, and others that would totally influence his life as a musician and writer.

Eileen Chang

QUICK FACTS

• born in Shanghai
• wrote for the United States Information Agency in the early 50s
• relocated permanently to the US when she was 35
• was a writer-in-residence at University of Southern California, Radcliffe College, and UC Berkeley
• has had many of her novels made into films, including Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee (2007)
• is one of Greater China's most popular and influential writers into today

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Eileen Chang was born to upper-class parents in Shanghai in the year 1920. Her father had affairs, got hooked on opium, and was very violent, and they divorced when Eileen was ten. So her childhood was very tumultuous and sad. She was able to have an English education beginning at a young age and attended a Christian high school in the city. She was already writing prolifically as an undergraduate in literature at the University of Hong Kong, where she studied until Japan took over.