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Originally Posted by Bookworm_Girl
She isn't an historian, and I suspect her life experiences growing up in China influence her writing style as well as her research methods and how she approaches her subject.
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Her PhD is in linguistics, but I think a great many university history departments might hire her. She's just as much of a historian as the late Fawn Brodie, another self-trained biographer whose books I like and who, if I can say it without too much risk of caning, also got a bit of help from an academic husband:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawn_M._Brodie
Re Chang's writing style, I wonder if any interviewer has asked her why she writes in English.