Jacob Rawson

Jacob Rawson studied in Yokohama and Beijing and taught high school in rural South Korea on a Fulbright grant. He earned an MA in Chinese linguistics at the University of Washington and has presented on China’s ethnic diversity in university classes. Jacob worked as a translator and editor of Taiwanese Buddhist publications and as a multilingual counselor for international students in the United States. In his first book, Invisible China, he and coauthor Colin Legerton reported on encounters with the ethnic minority people who inhabit China’s geographic and cultural peripheries. His second book, Journey to the Sacred, details an exploration of the renowned mountains of China and the American Northwest.