Chang, Jade

Jade Chang was born in America, but for generations, the Changs (her father s side) and the Baos (her mother s side) were wealthy landowners who presided over vast estates in mainland China. When the Communists won the Chinese Civil War in 1949, both sets of grandparents were lucky enough to flee to Taiwan along with the remains of the Nationalist Army. On that tiny island they socialized primarily with other displaced Mainlanders and taught their children, her parents, to long for a lost China.

Jade has covered arts and culture for publications like Metropolis Magazine (where she was the We...