Lois B. Morris is cowriting Tian’s memoir with him, currently subtitled “From Mao to the Met,” to be published by John Wiley & Sons in association with Lincoln Center in 2008. She and her husband, Robert Lipsyte, write together on classical music and opera for the New York Times. She also writes books (including The New Personality Self-Portrait: Why You Think, Love, and Act the Way You Do, with John M. Oldham M.D.), a magazine column (“Mood News,” in Allure), and articles about psychology and health.