Diane Wei Liang was born in Beijing.
She spent part of her childhood with her parents in a labor camp in a remote
region of China. In 1989 she took part in the Student Democracy Movement and
protested in Tiananmen Square. She is a graduate of Peking University. She has
a PhD in business administration from Carnegie Mellon University and was a
professor of business in the US and the U.K. for more than ten years. She now
writes full-time and lives in London with her husband and their two children.
