Scott D. Seligman

Scott D. Seligman is a writer, a historian, a retired corporate executive and a career "China hand." Fluent in Mandarin and conversant in Cantonese, he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China for eight years and reads and writes Chinese. He has an undergraduate degree in history from Princeton University and a master's degree from Harvard University. He has managed a multinational public relations agency in China and served as communications director for a Fortune 50 company. He is the author of The First Chinese American: The Remarkable Life of Wong Chin Foo, Three Tough Chinamen and Chinese Business Etiquette and coauthor of Chinese at a Glance and Now You're Talking Mandarin Chinese. He has also published articles in the Asian Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, the China Business Review, China Heritage Quarterly, the Forward and other publications.