Dori Jones Yang
Author and journalist
Dori Jones Yang is an American author and journalist who often writes about China. She co-wrote Pour Your Heart Into It with Howard Schultz.
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About Dori Jones Yang
Dori Jones Yang is an American author and journalist whose work often focuses on China. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, she studied history at Princeton and international relations at Johns Hopkins. She spent many years reporting for Business Week and U.S. News & World Report. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and has traveled widely in Asia. In Pour Your Heart Into It, co-written with Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, she tells how Starbucks grew from a small Seattle coffee shop into a worldwide business. Her other books include The Secret Voice of Gina Zhang, written for readers aged 10 and up. She also wrote the historical novel Daughter of Xanadu and the memoir When the Red Gates Opened, about her time as a young foreign correspondent in China from 1982 to 1990.