Karen Minden, C.M., PhD, wrote Bamboo Stone during her first career as professor of Chinese politics and Asia Pacific Business at the University of Manitoba, and Director of Policy Studies at the Centre for Higher Education Research and Development. She was a Visiting Scholar at the National University of Singapore, and then Vice President of the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. In 2000, she began working in the field of adolescent mental health, and is the founder of Pine River Institute, the first and only comprehensive adolescent mental health and addiction treatment centre in Canada. Her...