December 2023
I'm a writer and editor trying to help the world make sense of China from my home office in Brooklyn. I do this by keeping irregular hours and working hard at cultivating a wide array of sources across many disciplines and time zones.
I recently wrote and edited a lot for The China Project, whose founders I've known and trusted for most of my career. During the pandemic I ghostwrote two books on China from opposite ends of pretty much every spectrum you can imagine.
This is how I enjoy my work: talk to everyone and share what I learn.
From 2012-2018, I was Managing Editor of ChinaFile, the online magazine at the Asia Society where I shaped the ChinaFile Conversation and moderated talks with China's filmmakers at the annual U.S.-Asia Entertainment Summit.
Before that, I was Asia Editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where, in Beijing from 2004-2012, I hired and managed thirteen regional stringers to help me cover Asia's movie business boom. Along the way I launched and edited China Film Insider, a website about the growing interdependence of China and Hollywood.
I've been cited as an expert by National Public Radio, the BBC, the PBS News Hour, New York, Deutsche Welle, The Australian, and Vanity Fair, and have been asked to address the National Chinese Language Conference, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Columbia University’s Graduate Department of East Asian Languages, Young China Watchers, and the Schwarzman Scholars.
I’ve curated and moderated discussions about Chinese films for the Asia Society and Rooftop Films in New York, and for the San Francisco Green Film Festival, and have hosted public discussions with authors writing about China.
When reporting for Reuters, from 2000-2004, I covered the global oil trade from Singapore and, in New York, the health and energy industries, and the attacks and aftermath of September 11, 2001.
My Asia journey began with an exchange student homestay program in Hiroshima in 1988, followed by studying Japanese at Berkeley as an undergraduate. This eventually led to learning Mandarin and covering President Bill Clinton's visit to Beijing for The South China Morning Post in 1998. I graduated from the Columbia Journalism School in 1999, and quickly helped found the groundbreaking news portal VirtualChina.
Prior to my work as a reporter, I edited non-fiction books at Henry Holt & Company in New York.
A Brooklyn resident, I’m a baseball fanatic, a passionate cook, and the proud dad of a teenage daughter.
I'm a writer and editor trying to help the world make sense of China from my home office in Brooklyn. I do this by keeping irregular hours and working hard at cultivating a wide array of sources across many disciplines and time zones.
I recently wrote and edited a lot for The China Project, whose founders I've known and trusted for most of my career. During the pandemic I ghostwrote two books on China from opposite ends of pretty much every spectrum you can imagine.
This is how I enjoy my work: talk to everyone and share what I learn.
From 2012-2018, I was Managing Editor of ChinaFile, the online magazine at the Asia Society where I shaped the ChinaFile Conversation and moderated talks with China's filmmakers at the annual U.S.-Asia Entertainment Summit.
Before that, I was Asia Editor of The Hollywood Reporter, where, in Beijing from 2004-2012, I hired and managed thirteen regional stringers to help me cover Asia's movie business boom. Along the way I launched and edited China Film Insider, a website about the growing interdependence of China and Hollywood.
I've been cited as an expert by National Public Radio, the BBC, the PBS News Hour, New York, Deutsche Welle, The Australian, and Vanity Fair, and have been asked to address the National Chinese Language Conference, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Columbia University’s Graduate Department of East Asian Languages, Young China Watchers, and the Schwarzman Scholars.
I’ve curated and moderated discussions about Chinese films for the Asia Society and Rooftop Films in New York, and for the San Francisco Green Film Festival, and have hosted public discussions with authors writing about China.
When reporting for Reuters, from 2000-2004, I covered the global oil trade from Singapore and, in New York, the health and energy industries, and the attacks and aftermath of September 11, 2001.
My Asia journey began with an exchange student homestay program in Hiroshima in 1988, followed by studying Japanese at Berkeley as an undergraduate. This eventually led to learning Mandarin and covering President Bill Clinton's visit to Beijing for The South China Morning Post in 1998. I graduated from the Columbia Journalism School in 1999, and quickly helped found the groundbreaking news portal VirtualChina.
Prior to my work as a reporter, I edited non-fiction books at Henry Holt & Company in New York.
A Brooklyn resident, I’m a baseball fanatic, a passionate cook, and the proud dad of a teenage daughter.
