About the Author

Eric N. Danielson has a B.A. degree in modern Chinese culture from the University of Washington in Seattle, and an M.A. from George Washington University. For the past five years, he has lived in Shanghai and worked as an education consultant and education manager in China's rapidly expanding private education industry. He has traveled extensively to nearly all the places described in this book and has undertaken voluminous research on these places. He is the co-author of "The Yangzi River and the Three Gorges" (6th edition), published by Hong Kong's Odyssey Guidebooks, and has published works on Kurdistan and Yugoslavia.