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Eli Bildner

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Since moving to China after graduating from college, Eli Bildner has lived in Yunnan, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. You can read more of his essays and poetry at w...
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Liz Carter

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Liz Carter is a DC-based China-watcher and the author and translator of a number of Chinese-English textbooks available on amazon.cn. She and her cat Desmond relocated to...
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Minami Funakoshi

After spending her childhood in India, Malaysia, and Japan, Minami moved to the U.S. to attend Yale University. Currently, she is studying abroad in Beijing and Taipei to...
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Yueran Zhang

Yueran Zhang is a student at Duke University, class of 2015, currently majoring in sociology and math. He spent all of his life before college in Beijing.
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Amanda Bullington

Amanda is currently studying Mandarin at the National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. Before Taipei, she spent four years living in Washington DC, getting a degree i...
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A Cappella

A Cappella was born in China, but she spent her formative years between China, Canada, and the U.S. As a recent graduate of Yale, A Cappella is excited to return to China...
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Anzia Mayer

Anzia is a senior majoring in Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College. She studies Chinese and Japanese, and has studied abroad in Beijing and Kyoto. She lik...
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Anxiao Mina

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An Xiao Mina is an American designer, researcher and artist. She focuses on the role of technology in building communities and empowering individuals. Her work has...
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Alexander Nasr

Alexander Nasr studies International Relations with a focus on China. His interests include China-Central Asia relations, Chinese political discourse, and the effect that...
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Angus Nicholson

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Angus reads Chinese and Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and is writing a dissertation entitled 'The Chongqing Model: Lies, Debt, Graft and a Fals...
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Ashley Sun

Ashley's life up to now has been divided between Beijing and Hong Kong. She is an occasionally vocal observer of China. Two years ago, she published a collection of essay...
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Alex Thorp

Alex is a soon-to-be-graduate in International Relations from American University. He has also studied and worked on issues of urban sustainability at the London School o...
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Ben Sangree

Ben Sangree leads marketing efforts for Fluentflix. FluentFlix is a new way to learn Chinese through authentic video content like music videos, movie trailers, news, and ...
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Brett Zhu

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Serving as a regional manager with a Chinese company, Brett takes charge of business exploration in the Middle East and East Europe. He can be reached through LinkedIn
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Christopher Magoon

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Christopher Magoon moved to Yunnan in 2011 as a Luce Scholar working with Teach For China after graduating from Yale University. After his Luce year, he completed an ora...
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Carl Rubinstein

Carl Rubinstein recently earned an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University. He studies and writes about Chinese politics, law, and cyber policy. Currently, Car...
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Chieh-Ting Yeh

Chieh-Ting Yeh was born in Taiwan but grew up in New York and Boston. He was active in Taiwanese American student circles and was part of the Harvard Asia Law Society. Wh...
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Chris Zheng

Chris remembers vividly the overnight train rides of his childhood that took him across China. He lived in New Haven briefly as a kid, where he went Easter egg hunting on...
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Charles Zhu

Charles works at an energy and climate change think tank in Washington, D.C, and is a recent graduate of Yale University.
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David Caragliano

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David Caragliano works on rule of law and governance programs focused on Asia. Prior to his foray into international development, David was a capital markets attorney in...
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Deanna Dong

Deanna was born in Dalian, China, grew up in Florida, and studied Economics at Harvard University. She enjoys yoga and is an unapologetic fan of "Who Can Pick One from A ...
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Denise Liu

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Daniele Pestilli

Daniele is an Italian alum of the University of Toronto who majored in East Asian Studies. After furthering his Japanese language studies at Keio University and Korean at...
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Efen Huang

Efen is a communications coach with extensive experience in healthcare PR in China.
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En Liang Khong

En Liang Khong is currently pursuing an MPhil in Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in Ancient and Modern History from Oxford. He has writt...
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Ehr Kwong

Ehr Kwong (pen name) is a career U.S. military officer.
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Ellen Li

Born in Jinan, China, Ellen is now studying Economics and Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. She has a strong interest in journalism and law, and recently became pas...
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Eddie Song

After living in Shanghai for more than two decades, Eddie left his hometown for City University of Hong Kong to pursue a master's degree in translation. Recently he start...
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Ethan Wilkes

Ethan Wilkes is the Director of Communications at Reboot, a social enterprise that works on issues of governance and international development.
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Xiaoying Zhou

Xiaoying Zhou is a student at Yale University.
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Fei Wang

Fei Wang is an energy and environment professional based in Washington, DC. Born and raised in Wuhan, China, she received her undergraduate and graduate education in the ...
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Gloria Wang

Gloria Wang is a masters' graduate from the University of Pennsylvania. Having travelled around half of China in the past 20 years, she is enjoying her peace of mind in N...
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Han Chen

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Helen Gao

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Helen hails from Beijing, where she spent the first 17 years of her life before heading to the US for high school and college. After a one-year stint at The Atlantic maga...
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Hongxiang Huang

Hongxiang Huang, an MPA-Development-Practice student at Columbia University, is a freelance journalist focusing on development issues and China-related topics in South Am...
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Holly Zhao

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Joel Ayau

Joel Ayau is a pianist, author, vocal coach, professor, translator, and Sunday school teacher. He lives in Arlington, VA.
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Jan Cao

Jan Cao is a senior and a comparative literature concentrator at Brown. She loves watching Japanese TV dramas and cooking.
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James Leibold

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Jessica Levine

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Jessica Levine is a Johns Hopkins University graduate student with an emphasis in digital communication. Based in Michigan, her research focuses on the social and politic...
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Katie Martin

After graduating from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service with a certificate in Asian Studies in 2011, Katie moved to a village in Yunnan as an elementary school Eng...
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Kim Wall

Kim Wall is a New York-based reporter and photographer with a long-standing fascination with Chinese politics and society. Before moving to the United States, Kim worked ...
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Lori Hammer

Lori is a graduate of Harvard University (AB ’07) and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (MA ’12). She has lived in Shanghai, and recently ret...
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Liang Pan

Liang Pan is studying political communication at New York University. He is an Asia Foundation young diplomat fellow and a graduate of The Fletcher School of Law and Dipl...
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Laura Speyer

Laura Speyer just completed her third year at Yale University. She studied abroad at Peking University last spring, and took language classes at Harbin Institute of Techn...
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Lotus Yuen

Lotus Yuen is a graduating student at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and was born and raised in Guangzhou. Currently, she is an editorial intern at Ifeng.com and has...
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Manqing Cang

Manqing is a senior at Smith College studying Philosophy.
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Max Peskin

Max Peskin is from Brookline, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelors of Science in Business Administration from Boston University with a concentration in international ...
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Matt Sheehan

Matt is a journalist and translator living in Beijing. He's spent over two years in China learning to speak the language and love the people. You can check out his writin...
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Monica Tan

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Monica Tan is a Beijing-based writer. She has been published in The Atlantic, the Sydney Morning Herald, Huffington Post, The Diplomat, Shanghaiist and Daily Life. Her wo...
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Nan Chen

Nan Chen is an attorney and activist interested in issues of international development, rule of law and China. He is the co-chair of the International Development Exchang...
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Ning Hui

Ning Hui, or Lulu, is a media enthusiast who has worked in development and currently enjoys exploring China's emerging civil society. She is close to Beijing's contempora...
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Natalie Thomas

Natalie Thomas is a Chinese studies graduate from the UK currently working as a multimedia producer in Beijing. When not out in the field filming, she is on weibo watchin...
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Rebecca Chao

Rebecca Chao is a freelance writer. She has written for The Atlantic, the Guardian, CNN, and the Christian Sc...
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Rebecca Liao

Rebecca is a China-watcher and attorney based in the Silicon Valley. In addition to China, she writes about the arts, politics and culture (and occasionally law!). An arc...
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Rachel Wang

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Rachel Wang is currently based in Beijing and an editorial intern with Financial Times Chinese.
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Sandra

Sandra finished her bachelor's degree in Journalism in Guangzhou, China. She worked as an intern journalist at Nanfang Daily Group in her senior year.
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Sascha Matuszak

Sascha is a Chengdu-based writer and journalist. He edits chengduliving.com and you can see more of his work on his personal blog, saschamatuszak.com.
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Sara Costa

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Shelley Jiang

Beijing-born Shelley Jiang spent five years in China writing, traveling, working for an environmental organization, and eating delicious things. She was only lured back t...
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Sophie Lu

Sophie Lu is a Fulbright Fellow researching marine environmental governance in China. She is an avid observer and blogger on racial, social, and cultural changes occurrin...
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Sijia Song

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Thomas Stevenson

Since receiving his MSc from Oxford in 2011, Thomas Stevenson has been published in number of anthologies and literary magazines. After a year in China with a British NG...
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Trefor Moss

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Trefor Moss is a Hong Kong-based journalist who covers politics, defence and security in the East Asian region. He was formerly Asia-Pacific Editor at Jane’s Defence We...
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Tianshen Rong

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Tom Snyder

Tom Snyder lived in northeast China for two years researching economic revitalization programs and teaching. He currently lives in Taipei, Taiwan.
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Tabitha Speelman

Tabitha is a graduate student in Chinese Studies at Leiden University.
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Tiffany Wang

Tiffany Wang is a freelance writer and blogger based in Beijing. She earned a B.A. in English Literature from Smith College and previously served as the style editor of t...
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Taylor Washburn

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Taylor Washburn is a lawyer studying the international relations of East Asia at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
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Vincent Capone

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William Blythe

William Blythe read Chinese Studies at Cambridge University. He is currently enrolled in a masters program in Chinese Literature at National Taiwan University but is ofte...
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William Ford

William Ford is a recent graduate of Middlebury College where he majored in East Asian Studies, focusing on Chinese politics, and minored in environmental studies. He has...
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Whitney Light

Whitney Light is a writer and photographer in New York. She loves history, travel memoirs, documentary films and swimming pools. Currently, she is studying for an M.S. at...
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Wendy Qian

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Wendy graduated from a liberal arts college this year. Originally from the East Coast, Wendy has spent several years living in Haikou and Beijing. After reporting for Chi...
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Xiao Wu

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Yao Chong

Yao Chong is from Xiamen, Fujian, China. She received her B.A. in International Relations from American University, concentrating on Asian environmental politics. She cur...
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Yi Lu

Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Yi Lu (Louis) is a junior studying History and French at Amherst College. Though fluent in Chinese, English, and French, he never ful...
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Yiqin Fu

Born and raised in Nanjing, China, Yiqin Fu studies at Milton Academy, a boarding school in Milton, Massachusetts. She enjoys examining her home country through the lens ...
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