Jane was born in Taipei on the lovely island of Taiwan. At the sprightly age of eighteen months, Jane rode her first airplane across the Pacific to her new home in the US of A. There, she became a seasoned American traveler by age 12, trekking sea to shining sea from Oregon, Illinois to New York with her adventurous parents. Although she attended public school dutifully by day, she admits that her real education came from watching Chinese soap operas religiously with her mother and to this day is better-versed in Chinese pop culture than American (although she can still do a soulful rendition of Paula Abdul’s "Straight Up").

As destiny would have it, Jane flew back across the Pacific to attend the National Experimental High School in Hsinchu, Taiwan, where she discovered that Japanese dramas could co-exist alongside her favorite Chinese soaps on cable TV. This revelation was to change her life forever. After one year, Jane had to tear herself away from her beloved soaps to finish high school in sunny Cupertino, California, after which she went on to graduate with honors from the University of California, Berkeley (go bears!). It was her passion for her major, sociology, that saved her from a soapy end.

Dreaming of more dramas, nevertheless, Jane took a job with the JET Programme and moved to Tokyo, where she exposed Japanese schoolchildren (the cutest kids in the world) to the wonders of American culture by dancing the Macarena and being the most Japanese-looking, yet non-Japanese, fluent English-speaking American person they had ever met. Jane then moved to Paris for a few months of study and travel before arriving back to her beloved island home of Taiwan to work as a semiconductor industry news writer and translator for DigiTimes, an online IT news magazine based in Taipei. It was in Taipei that she got "oriented" for the first time!

After three merry years in Asia, Jane returned to the US of A to pursue her master’s degree in international affairs at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where she is now concentrating on Pacific Asia and International Business. She is active on campus as President of the Fletcher Asia Club and the Taiwanese graduate student association at Tufts, Community Editor of the Fletcher Ledger, Writing Tutor and all around "Taiwan Woman." In the same year, she also plans to write a superb master’s thesis on Sino-Japanese energy conflicts, land her dream job in marketing, and live a balanced, healthy lifestyle with eight hours of sleep each day. Jane enjoys riding bicycles and airplanes and boats; she misses her family in Taiwan; and she is a passionate advocate of Ally McBeal, karaoke, swing dancing, water parks and chou dou fu.