Scott D. Seligman is a historian and retired corporate executive. He received degrees from Princeton University and Harvard University. He worked as a legislative assistant in Congress, a businessman in China, and a communications director of a Fortune 50 company. He is the author of several scholarly and business books including Chinese Business Etiquette, The First Chinese American, and Tong Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money, and Murder in New York's Chinatown.