Born in Hong Kong, but having grown up in Trinidad and Tobago, I've worked in East Asia, including Taipei, Beijing and Hong Kong, for a decade. I have been a copy editor at a couple of newspapers and Hong Kong's largest chamber of commerce, as well as a technical writer at a major Taiwan networking hardware firm. I write a lot about books and travel, but I've also written about China, Taiwan and Hong Kong business and political issues, and profiled some well-known authors. I maintain a personal blog at hcyip.wordpress.com and my writing portfolio can be seen here.
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My work has been published in various outlets including Foreign Policy, TimeOut Hong Kong, Asia Review of Books, Hong Kong Free Press, News Lens International, City Weekend Beijing, Global Times, and China Daily.
I've written travel articles for newspapers and magazines and dozens of book reviews. I've also written opinion pieces about Taiwan issues, China geopolitics, and Hong Kong business issues; features articles about Taiwan universities, auction houses, and slum tourism; and interviewed several authors including 2017 Nobel Economics Prize laureate Richard Thaler when he visited Taiwan in 2009. I also wrote a weekly newspaper sports column, mainly about Premiership football and Arsenal, from 2014 to 2017.
I enjoy reading books like novels and non-fiction, as well as newspapers and magazines. On my phone, I often check the Guardian or BBC apps more than email or messaging apps. As such, you can understand why much of my career involves working in media outlets and writing for them.
While I was born in Hong Kong, I am from the country of Trinidad and Tobago, a small two-island nation in the Caribbean that gave the world the steel pan and was a British colony until 1962, when it gained its independence. Famous people from Trinidad include VS Naipaul, the Nobel Literature Prize laureate; Brian Lara, one of the greatest cricket batsmen of all time; and Dwight Yorke, the former Manchester United star striker who helped them win the treble in 1999, as well as a notoriously crooked former FIFA vice president who I shall not name.
Though Trinidad is located very close to South America, specifically Venezuela, the official language is English (not Spanish as some people assume) since it was a British colony from 1797 to 1962. Besides being a native English speaker, I'm also conversational in Cantonese, which I spoke growing up, and Mandarin.
If you would like to contact me, send me an email.
My work has been published in various outlets including Foreign Policy, TimeOut Hong Kong, Asia Review of Books, Hong Kong Free Press, News Lens International, City Weekend Beijing, Global Times, and China Daily.
I've written travel articles for newspapers and magazines and dozens of book reviews. I've also written opinion pieces about Taiwan issues, China geopolitics, and Hong Kong business issues; features articles about Taiwan universities, auction houses, and slum tourism; and interviewed several authors including 2017 Nobel Economics Prize laureate Richard Thaler when he visited Taiwan in 2009. I also wrote a weekly newspaper sports column, mainly about Premiership football and Arsenal, from 2014 to 2017.
I enjoy reading books like novels and non-fiction, as well as newspapers and magazines. On my phone, I often check the Guardian or BBC apps more than email or messaging apps. As such, you can understand why much of my career involves working in media outlets and writing for them.
While I was born in Hong Kong, I am from the country of Trinidad and Tobago, a small two-island nation in the Caribbean that gave the world the steel pan and was a British colony until 1962, when it gained its independence. Famous people from Trinidad include VS Naipaul, the Nobel Literature Prize laureate; Brian Lara, one of the greatest cricket batsmen of all time; and Dwight Yorke, the former Manchester United star striker who helped them win the treble in 1999, as well as a notoriously crooked former FIFA vice president who I shall not name.
Though Trinidad is located very close to South America, specifically Venezuela, the official language is English (not Spanish as some people assume) since it was a British colony from 1797 to 1962. Besides being a native English speaker, I'm also conversational in Cantonese, which I spoke growing up, and Mandarin.
