Ana Fuentes is a Spanish journalist, author, and speaker based in Madrid. A former Beijing correspondent from 2007 to 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.
Last Updated: February 5, 2015
Excerpts
04.05.13Living Underground
They are called rats, and they have become a symbol of Beijing’s red-hot real estate market. Because of soaring housing costs, there are at least a million people living underground, only able to afford a rented room in the basements of skyscrapers...
Books
04.03.13
From the Dragon’s Mouth
From The Dragon’s Mouth: Ten True Stories that Unveil the Real China is an exquisitely intimate look into the China of the twenty-first 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. —Penguin{chop}{node, 3048, 4}