Richard Burger has more than 23 years of combined journalism and corporate communications experience and holds a Master's degree in Journalism from New York University. Along with working as an editor for the Chinese newspaper The Global Times in Beijing, he was a copywriter for Prentice-Hall books, a correspondent for the Fairchild News Syndicate and The Enterprise newspaper in Maryland, and was a contributor to the Baltimore Sun. He worked as a communications specialist for more than eight years in Greater China, with nearly four years spent in Beijing, and played a key role promoting the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

His blog, The Peking Duck, was started in 2002 and was one of the first blogs in China. For ten years Burger has blogged about social, political and cultural issues in China and has a wide audience of readers around the world.

A sexual revolution is underway in China. Traditional morals and behavior are being turned on their head as the country’s climb towards economic prosperity brings sex into the open. But it is a revolution distinctly different from the one experienced in the West and has taken unexpected twists and turns.

Written in a highly engaging and readable style, Behind the Red Door: Sex in China takes the reader on a journey from ancient days, when China’s rulers relied on shockingly vivid Daoist sex manuals, to the present, where China is torn between sexual orthodoxy and Western-style openness.