Liu Hulan is the Inspector in China's Ministry of Public Security whose tough style rousts wrongdoers and rubs her superiors the wrong way. See serves as a Los Angeles City Commissioner.In a magnificent land where myth mixes treacherously with truth, one woman is in charge of telling them apart. Among her awards and recognitions are the Organization of Chinese Americans Women's 2001 award as National Woman of the Year and the 2003 History Makers Award presented by the Chinese American Museum. She has written for and led in many cultural events emphasizing the importance of Los Angeles and Chinatown. Her exhibition On Gold Mountain: A Chinese American Experience was featured in the Autry Museum of Western Heritage, and the Smithsonian. See was West Coast correspondent for Publishers Weekly (1983-1996) has written articles for Vogue, Self, and More has written the libretto for the opera based on On Gold Mountain, and has helped develop the Family Discovery Gallery for the Autry Museum, which depicts 1930s Los Angeles from the perspective of her father as a seven-year-old boy. from Loyola Marymount University in 1979. Her autobiography provides insight into her daughter's life. Her mother, Carolyn See, is also a writer and novelist. Lisa See was born in Paris February 18, 1955, but has spent many years in Los Angeles, especially Los Angeles Chinatown. See has donated her personal papers (1973-2001) to UCLA. She has written a personal essay ('The Funeral Banquet') for Half and Half.

Writing under the pen name Monica Highland, See, her mother Carolyn See, and John Espey, published three novels: Lotus Land (1983), 110 Shanghai Road (1986), and Greetings from Southern California (1988). See's latest novel, Shanghai Girls (2009), chronicles the lives of two sisters who come to Los Angeles in arranged marriages and face, among other things, the pressures put on Chinese-Americans during the anti-Communist mania of the 1950s. Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love focus on the lives of Chinese women in the 19th and 17th centuries respectively. Both Shangai Girls and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan received honorable mentions from the Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature.įlower Net, The Interior, and Dragon Bones make up the Red Princess mystery series. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995) and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to the 2010 New York Times bestseller list. The Chinese side of her family has had a great impact on her life and work. Lisa See is a Chinese American writer and novelist.

Dragon Bones by Lisa See