Pam Chun
Best-selling author Pam Chun's award-winning first novel, THE MONEY DRAGON, was named one of 2002's Best Books of Hawaii. She has been featured on NPR, at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and in the documentary Hawaii's Chinatown, which premiered on Hawaii PBS. She is a veteran storyteller at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her tropical flowers bloom despite fog, drought, and frost. Pam has one son, a U.S. diplomat...See more
Best-selling author Pam Chun's award-winning first novel, THE MONEY DRAGON, was named one of 2002's Best Books of Hawaii. She has been featured on NPR, at the Smithsonian and the National Archives, and in the documentary Hawaii's Chinatown, which premiered on Hawaii PBS. She is a veteran storyteller at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area, where her tropical flowers bloom despite fog, drought, and frost. Pam has one son, a U.S. diplomat stationed overseas with his family. Visit her website at ... Praise for THE PERFECT TEA THIEF "When haughty Scottish gardener Robert Fortune, who hated everything about China, set out for the Middle Kingdom during the Opium Wars as an employee of the British Horticultural Society and under the pretext of collecting flowers, he didn't anticipate that a formidable slip of a girl-warrior, Jadelin of the powerful House of Poe, would capture his closed heart. Presuming himself immune to the power of love, Fortune pursues a secret mission that will, if successful, enable Britain to steal the secrets of China's coveted teas that had enabled its economy to prosper and dominate the tea industry. The deeper Fortune ventures into the forbidden inland mountains, the more he is seduced by the country he scorns until he, too, dresses and acts like the Chinese and speaks their language. He pursues Jadelin, oblivious of her deadly skills to protect her 5,000 year-old culture, and befriends her brother, unaware that he will prove to be both his savior and enemy. The Chinese have a saying, "You don't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been." THE PERFECT TEA THIEF takes the reader back to the source of the tensions today between China and the West in a fast-paced and captivating read based on the real life and letters of Robert Fortune." -Barbara Bundy, PhD Founding Executive Director Emerita, University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies See less