Shirley Shao was born in China but moved to the United States when she was two. She has had a long-standing love affair with Chinese culture that will most likely only intensify as she learns more about people who died centuries ago.  As an art student herself she has been strongly influenced by motifs and legends found in Asian art; when she can, she likes to visit the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and spend hours reading the books in their gift shop. In her spare time, she also writes for Cfensi, a blog that presents Chinese entertainment to the English-speaking world. [Read]