ABOUT DORIS LAU PARRY

Doris Lau Parry, a native of Hong Kong, started writing as a journalist in the Hongkong Standard in the early 1970s.  She wrote extensively, as a columnist and interviewer, for a wide range of Chinese-language publications, including Ming Pao Magazine and Music Today.  Lau was also a founding member of the Thumb Weekly.  Educated in Hong Kong, Taiwan, France and the US, she holds a Master of Liberal Arts from the University of Chicago.  For the last thirty years Lau worked in corporate communications, specializing in media and crisis training, and public affairs, in Hong Kong, China and Singapore.  She currently lives and writes in Chicago, Illinois.