Ming Liu is a luxury journalist who contributes regularly to the New York Times, Financial Times and CNN. Her work has also appeared in The Economist’s 1843 and other publications, covering topics from watches and jewellery to Chinese art, travel and haute cuisine. She graduated from Wellesley College and, after earning a master’s in creative writing at the University of Manchester, she published her first novel, Our Man in China, about American-born Chinese trying to make in the Middle Kingdom.