China Scene: East

Young author launches book about living in US

Chen Yunzheng, a 12-year-old student at Qunzhonglu Primary School in Fuzhou, Fujian province, has written a book about her experience of studying in the United States. She is the youngest author of a book about what it is like to live and study overseas.

Chen went to the US with her father Chen Qiang, a journalist and visiting scholar, in 2006. During her 18 months in the US, she and her father wrote columns for several newspapers and magazines, and she launched her own blog (http://blog.sina.com.cn/funv), which attracted more than 3 million visitors.