Author
Scott D. Seligman is an award-winning writer, a historian, a genealogist, a retired corporate executive and a career "China hand." He holds an undergraduate degree in American history from Princeton University and a master's degree from Harvard University. Fluent in Mandarin, he lived in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China for eight years and reads and writes Chinese.
He has worked as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S.
Congress, lobbied the Chinese government on behalf of American
business, managed a multinational public relations agency in China,
served as spokesperson and communications director for a Fortune 50
company and taught English in Taiwan and Chinese in Washington, DC.
He is the author of nine books, including The Great Kosher Meat
War of 1902: Immigrant Housewives and the Riots that Shook New York
City, which won gold medals in the 2021 Independent Publisher
Book Awards and the 2020-21 Reader Views Literary Awards; Tong
Wars: The Untold Story of Vice, Money and Murder in New York's
Chinatown and The First Chinese American: The Remarkable
Life of Wong Chin Foo. He is also co-author of the best-selling
Cultural Revolution Cookbook and Now You're Talking
Mandarin Chinese.
He has published articles in Smithsonian magazine, The
Atlantic, the Washington Post, the
Seattle Times, the Asian Wall Street Journal, the
China Business Review, Tablet Magazine, The Forward, China Heritage Quarterly, The
Cleaver Quarterly, Bucknell Magazine, Howard Magazine, the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American
Center blog, the New York History blog, the Granite Studio blog and
Traces, the Journal of the Indiana Historical Society. He
has also created several websites on historical and genealogical
topics. He lives in Washington, DC.
Visit the author's website here.
© 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Scott D. Seligman