From http://www.lavanguardia.es/lacontra/20101220/54089895005/mis-padres-dormian-en-la-banera-para-que-yo-estudiara.html (in Spanish), http://cac.drac.com/?p=579 (in Catalan) and http://www.elpunt.cat/noticia/article/7-vista/8-articles/332806-conte-de-la-xina.html (in Catalan)
Jiajia Wang Liu was born near Wenzhou, in south-east China and her family moved to Catalonia in 1997, when she was only 8 years old. Her parents had to move out of China since they were outlawed for having more than one child. She had tough childhood years, but she struggled to finish high school and to enter the Pompeu Fabra University, where she got a degree in business administration. She received a grant to upgrade her studies at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She has recently received the UPF Emprèn 2010-Fundació Banc Sabadell award of 20,000 euros for the idea that she plans to turn into her own business: a publishing company aimed at producing educational materials for the Chinese children adopted by Catalan families, so they can learn their mother language. Jiajia masters Chinese, Catalan, Spanish and English.
Two interviews and an article descriving how she got the award can be downloaded from the links at the top.
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