Hailing from Trinidad and Tobago (but born in Hong Kong), I've been living and working in East Asia, including Taipei, Beijing and Hong Kong, for over a decade. Besides being a freelance writer, I have worked as a copy editor at newspapers and a corporate editor/copy editor. I was also a technical writer at a major Taiwan networking hardware firm.
I write a lot about Taiwan, Hong Kong and China issues, as well about books and travel, and profiled some well-known authors. I maintain a personal blog at hcyip.wordpress.com and my writing portfolio can be seen here. If you would like to contact me, send me an email.
My work has been published in various outlets including Foreign Policy, National Interest, Asian Review of Books, Hong Kong Free Press, NewsLens International, TimeOut Hong Kong, Rough Guides, City Weekend Beijing, Global Times, and China Daily.
I've written articles for newspapers and magazines and dozens of book reviews. I've also written opinion pieces and analyses 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.
While I was born in Hong Kong, I am from 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. I'm an avid reader of novels and non-fiction (as well as newspapers and magazines), an occasional hiker, and I do a bit of traveling as well.
I write a lot about Taiwan, Hong Kong and China issues, as well about books and travel, and profiled some well-known authors. I maintain a personal blog at hcyip.wordpress.com and my writing portfolio can be seen here. If you would like to contact me, send me an email.
My work has been published in various outlets including Foreign Policy, National Interest, Asian Review of Books, Hong Kong Free Press, NewsLens International, TimeOut Hong Kong, Rough Guides, City Weekend Beijing, Global Times, and China Daily.
I've written articles for newspapers and magazines and dozens of book reviews. I've also written opinion pieces and analyses 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.
While I was born in Hong Kong, I am from 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. I'm an avid reader of novels and non-fiction (as well as newspapers and magazines), an occasional hiker, and I do a bit of traveling as well.
