Mingmei Yip returns to discuss her recent novel, Song of the Silk Road, a love adventure story with a three million dollar award, set in the famous Silk Road and its Go-In-But-Never-Come-Out Taklamakan desert .
Her first novel, Peach Blossom Pavilion, explored the life of the last Chinese geisha who is a qin player.
Petals from the Sky, her second work, presented a Buddhist love story set in Hong Kong, Manhattan, Paris and China.
Song of the Silk Road turns readers attentions to the trading routes between East and West in a romantic setting.