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Kaitlin Solimine

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Kaitlin Solimine holds a BA from Harvard University and an MA from the University of Southern California, both in East Asian Studies with an emphasis on Chinese language, culture, and history. She studied international relations at Beijing University as a Harvard-Yenching Scholar, wrote and edited the travel series, Let’s Go: China (St. Martin’s Press), and received a Fulbright creative grant to research her forthcoming first novel, Empire of Glass. At the 2010 Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, she was the Donald E. Axinn Scholar in Fiction. She received an MFA in writing from UC-San Diego, where she also taught undergraduate writing. An excerpt from Empire of Glass won the 2012 Dzanc Books/Disquiet International Literary Program award, judge ...more

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	Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China by Tom Carter (Editor), Dominic Stevenson (Contributor), Peter Hessler (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire of Glass 4.18 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How Does One Dress to Buy Dragonfruit? True Stories of Expat Women in Asia by Shannon Young (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Shannon Dunlap, Dorcas Cheng-Tozun (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Let's Go China 2000 by Let's Go Inc., Kaitlin Solimine (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kartika Review (Issue 15): Spring 2013 by Sunny Woan (Managing Editor), Jennifer Derilo (Nonfiction Editor), Eugenia Leigh (Goodreads Author) (Poetry Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.”
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message 1: by Moses

Sep 29, 2009 11:25PM

Hi Kaitlin,

Thanks for the add. I'm sure to be posting what I read here. You have quite an impressive list of books you've read. kudos. cheers!

Moses.

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