Sheila Melvin

Sheila Melvin lived in China from 1995 until September of 2000. She now splits her time between the US and China, with bases in Baton Rouge and Beijing. Sheila Melvin is a regular contributor to The Asian Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The International Herald Tribune, and The New York Times. She often writes on music-related subjects, including Western classical music in China, and Chinese opera. In 1998-99, she wrote a series of ten articles for The Wall Street Journal on the Kunju opera “Peony Pavilion,” which was produced by Lincoln Center. Ms. Melvin’s stories on the arts, travel, business, politics, human interest, and economics in China have been carried by a number of publications, including USA Today, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times, Opera News, The South China Morning Post and Catholic Digest. She is a native of Washington, DC and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.