Peter Rupert Lighte, founding chairman of J.P. Morgan Chase Bank China, as well as a sinologist who has taught Chinese history and philosophy, lived abroad for almost three decades, dividing his time between London and Asia. Currently on the boards of One Sky Foundation (formerly known as Half the Sky Foundation) and Council on International Educational Exchange, as well as active in Princeton alumni activities, he is a sought-after speaker at universities and corporations. He is also a calligrapher, mosaicist and short story writer.

Books by Peter Rupert Lighte

Straight Through the Labyrinth: Becoming a Gay Father in China

by Peter Rupert Lighte - Memoir, Nonfiction

STRAIGHT THROUGH THE LABYRINTH chronicles the true story of a gay Jewish scholar of China caught in the crosshairs of the very history he has studied. Suddenly ensnared in Hong Kong's handover back to China in 1997, Peter Lighte, intent on adopting a Chinese baby, navigates his way through daunting bureaucracy and unforeseen drama --- and prevails, likely becoming Hong Kong's first adoptive gay father. A second daughter soon follows, a story no less fraught, convincing him that purposeful synchronicity can thrash anything in the way of love.