I'm a Taiwan-based writer who has been living in East Asia for over a decade. During this time, I have been a freelance writer while having worked in Taipei, Beijing and Hong Kong. I have worked as an editor at English-language newspapers, a trade publishing and events company, and a chamber of commerce. I was also a technical writer at a major Taiwan networking hardware firm. I graduated from York University in Toronto with a bachelor's degree in Political Science.
I write mainly about Taiwan and Hong Kong political and socio-economic issues, as well as about China. I also write about books, culture, and travel. I also put out a weekly newsletter about Taiwan news and developments. 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, 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 grew up in 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. I am a native English speaker and 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 enjoy a bit of travel as well.
I write mainly about Taiwan and Hong Kong political and socio-economic issues, as well as about China. I also write about books, culture, and travel. I also put out a weekly newsletter about Taiwan news and developments. 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, 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 grew up in 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. I am a native English speaker and 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 enjoy a bit of travel as well.
