Mahlon Meyer

Mahlon Meyer was educated in philosophy (including hermeneutics (how we interpret patterns) and phenomenology (how we construct the world)) at Stanford University, where his research thesis received first prize in its category. He later received a master's from Harvard University, where he studied history and again won an award for his research. His academic education was completed at the University of Washington in the History Department, where he was a Freeman Fellow. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to write his dissertation. As a journalist, he worked as a staff foreign correspondent for Newsweek covering Asia and other areas. He won several awards. His writing also appeared in other publications, such as the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Dallas Morning News. He was a reporter for public radio and also had a nationally-televised program, which he hosted, on Phoenix Satellite Television, in Mandarin Chinese. He currently writes for the Northwest Asian Weekly, a newspaper focused on AAPI issues in the greater Seattle area. He has written three books. His most recent, "Remembering China from Taiwan," covers the flight of the Kuomintang (Guomindang) armies and regime to Taiwan in 1949 and, later, their attempts to reconnect with their families on mainland China. It was named one of the top books on the Chinese Civil War by Book Authority. Adi Ignatius, the editor of the Harvard Business Review, described the book as follows: "What a great accomplishment! It's a brilliant topic, imaginatively structured, and beautifully written." It is used as a textbook in some universities, where the students reportedly find it very evocative.