Ana Fuentes is a Spanish journalist, author and speaker based in New York. Former correspondent in Beijing (2007-2011), her reports have been broadcast on three continents by Radio Netherland, Prisa Radio, CNN en español and others. Ana holds a degree in Journalism from the Complutense University in Madrid and the Sorbonne University in Paris, and a Master’s in Journalism from El Pais and the University Autónoma in Madrid.

Her book From The Dragon’s Mouth: Ten True Stories that Unveil the Real China (Penguin, April 2013) is an exquisitely intimate look into the China of the 21st century as seen through the eyes of its people. This is one of the rare times a book combines the voices of everyday Chinese people from so many different layers of society: a dissident tortured by the police; a young millionaire devoted to nationalism; a peasant-turned-prostitute to pay for the best education for her son; a woman who married her gay friend to escape from social pressure, just like an estimated 16 million other women; a venerated Kung-Fu master unable to train outdoors because of the hazardous pollution; the daughter of two Communist Party officials getting rich coaching Chinese entrepreneurs the ways of Capitalism; among others.

Its Spanish version Cuando los chinos hablan was Amazon’s number 1 best-seller in Politics and Non-fiction.