Adan Kohnhorst
Adan is a writer, creator and multimedia producer based out of Shanghai. He loves hip hop, classic kung fu movies and sheng jian bao. 不喜欢臭豆腐. Eye-level insight into a new China. On Twitter: @GeneralTsoWut and WeChat: @bboyudon
33 Posts
Anna Finke
Anna Finke is a Masters of Forestry graduate from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, specializing in forest restoration and sustainable forest management. She has previously researched reforestation success in Taiyuan, Shanxi and worked with the Beijing Forestry Society on the silvicultural improvement of planted forests.
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Annie Wang
Annie has previously worked for beijingkids Magazine writing about tech innovators and unique families in Beijing. As a recent graduate of Georgetown University, Annie will continue to read books for pleasure and explore the city of San Francisco upon her return to the US in August.
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Anthony Tao
Anthony Tao is a writer and editor in Beijing. You can read his published poems and other stories on anthonytao.com. He was Radii’s first editor-in-chief.
48 Posts
Carl Setzer
Carl Setzer is the co-founder, CEO, and authoritarian brewmaster of Great Leap Brewing, and founding member of the Craft Beer Association of China as well as standing member of the Technical Scientific Committee of the T.U. Berlin School of Fermentation and Biotechnology. He has a son named Robby with his wife and muse, Liu Fang.
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Colin Garon
Colin Garon is a rising fourth-year undergraduate at the University of Chicago studying the history and anthropology of science. He's spending the summer doing research at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine.
5 Posts
Daniel Weaver
Daniel Weaver is a recent graduate and writer currently based in Boston. He studied Mandarin in Beijing and in Harbin, and writes here about Chinese film.
8 Posts
Darren Byler
Darren Byler (doctoral researcher, University of Washington) spent years in Xinjiang as a cultural anthropologist. Drawing on his background in photography, music and art criticism, and years of training in Uyghur, Chinese and ethnographic methods, he has researched the formation of new forms of art and politics in the city of Urumchi. His website, The Art of Life in Chinese Central Asia, is done in collaboration with Uyghur, Han and Kazakh writers.
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Dylan Conroy
Born and raised in New York City, now living in China, everything Dylan does relates to tea. He always carries two gaiwans and is quick to give people free tea if they show even the slightly interest. His ultimate goal is to make tea as widely appreciated and understood as wine is in the West. He has his own blog, www.thesweetestdew.com, which is dedicated solely to tea education.
9 Posts
Elephant Room
Elephant Room is an independent media project run by two Chinese girls, Biyi Feng and Yan Zhou, to explore China’s social and business innovations through cultural lenses. Check out their website (elephant-room.com) or subscribe to their weekly email newsletter (click the W icon below).
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Feng Ye
Feng Ye (叶枫) studies socio-cultural Anthropology at the college of the University of Chicago. She is currently assisting with anthropological research of Chinese medicine.
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Gang Lu
Dr. Gang Lu is the founder & CEO of <a href="http://technode.com">TechNode</a>, and the head of TechCrunch China. He's a Blogger, a Geek, a PhD and a Speaker, with passion in Tech, Internet and R'N'R.
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Guldana Salimjan
Guldana Salimjan is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. Using feminist, oral history, and memory studies methods, she examines the embodied practice of Kazakh social memory as well as societal changes from socialist collectivization to post-Mao China. Her research interests include performance, anthropology of ritual and oral tradition, indigenous knowledge, and environmental justice.
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He Yumeng
He Yumeng is an English major who has a deep love for Chinese culture and regards Chinese as the most beautiful language in the world. She likes to communicate with people to broaden her horizons.
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Ivy Yang
Ivy Yang just returned to China after six years in the US. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in International Relations. She is currently located in Shanghai working as a consultant.
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Jack Smith
Jack Smith is the LGBT editor at Time Out Beijing. Jack began researching sexology and LGBT issues while at the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote his graduate thesis on portrayals of same-sex relationships in contemporary Chinese cinema. He lives in Beijing with his husband Eddy.
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Jingjing Zhang
Jingjing loves to observe and think. Born and raised by a traditional "red" family, she spent five years in the UK wrestling and debating with the ideologies she grew up believing in. She now works for a British firm in Beijing, and is deeply fascinated by the ever-changing values and contradictions that China embodies. A major in radio journalism at university, she loves discovering and listening to people’s stories from all walks of life and sharing them across the airwaves. You can reach her at womenpodcast@outlook.com.
3 Posts
Josh Feola
Josh Feola is a Beijing-based writer and musician, and an editor at Radii. His coverage of Chinese music and art has appeared in The Wire, LEAP, Tiny Mix Tapes, Sixth Tone, and more. He's been active in the Beijing music scene since 2010 via his booking platform pangbianr.com, and currently plays drums in Beijing bands SUBS and Vagus Nerve.
29 Posts
Kassy Lee
Kassy Lee is a poet living in Beijing. Her most recent chapbook <em><a href="http://www.anothernewcalligraphy.com/2017/05/anc045-period-of-warring-states-by.html">The Period of Warring States</a></em> was published by Another New Calligraphy press in 2017. She writes a weekly poetry newsletter you can subscribe to: <a href="http://www.tinyletter.com/maambojaambo">Maambo Jaambo</a>.
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Krish Raghav
Krish Raghav works for the Concrete & Grass Music Festival (concreteandgrass.cn) in Shanghai. He shares his hometown with Dhalsim from Street Fighter, but cannot shoot fireballs from his face.
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Masha Borak
Masha Borak is a technology reporter based in Beijing. Write to her at masha.borak@technode.com
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Megan Pan
Megan Pan is a writer and undergraduate at Northwestern University majoring in Philosophy and double-minoring in Poetry and Chinese. She likes picking up on the latest Chinese Internet slang.
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Mike Elias
Mike Elias is a writer, editor and startup investment associate living in Beijing. He likes to help companies solve problems and create native-English marketing. WeChat ID: themikeelias
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Milo Chao
Milo Chao is a Shanghai-based strategist and educator. He spent most of his career as an adman in Asia and the U.S. He was born in Dublin, Ireland and raised in Queens, New York.
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Philana Woo
Philana Woo is a Shanghai-based writer. In addition to interning for The New York Times, she has worked as a translator, artist interpreter, celebrity publicist and brand consultant. She was born and raised in San Francisco and misses burritos, but not the fog.
2 Posts
Ravan Liu
Ravan Liu is a student at Communication University of China, where he is a double major in accounting and German studies. He enjoys traveling, tennis and Latin music.
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Rita Liao
Telling the uncommon China stories through tech. Rita can be reached at ritaliao@technode.com.
3 Posts
Simone Levine
Simone Levine is a writer and translator based in Beijing. She has contributed to catalogs on the artists Zhao Gang and Jiang Zhi, and her writing has been published by iLOOK Magazine.
2 Posts
Siok Siok Tan
Siok Siok Tan is a filmmaker, entrepreneur and author of a new book of photos about the Beijing hutong, 《人在北京》(Citybook). She is founder and CEO of Kinetic ONE, a social video platform in China with channels focused on youth culture, fashion and lifestyle, as well as food and wine. Tan previously worked as an executive producer for Discovery Channel in Asia.
4 Posts
Taylor Hartwell
Taylor has been living in China since 2014 on the basis that he's already sunk too much into studying Chinese and can't stop now. When not staring at himself on his phone, he can be found writing, teaching and consulting at various schools and companies in Beijing. His Zhibo column runs every Monday on Radii. He tweets @TaylorJHartwell
9 Posts
Thomas Lee
Thomas Lee is an English and French double-major. He is a big fan of Bruce Springsteen.
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Uchechi Kalu
Uchechi Kalu has been living in China since 2014. She’s a fiend of many things, including Spotify Premium and Beijing Guoan F.C. When not staring at the glass walls of her office, she’s out and about looking for new plants to buy or learning to be a better cook.
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Winston Wenyan Ma
Winston Wenyan Ma, CFA, Esq. is a managing director of China Investment Corporation (CIC), the sovereign wealth fund of China. He is the book author of "Investing in China" (Risk Books, 2006) and "China's Mobile Economy" (Wiley 2006). He was selected a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum and in 2014 he received the Distinguished Alumni Award from New York University.
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Wo Men Podcast
Wo Men Podcast is produced and hosted by Yajun Zhang and Jingjing Zhang, who will discuss weekly topics and share stories and views about their lives in China from the inside.
3 Posts
Wu Hao
Wu Hao is an English language and literature major at Communication University of China. He is a happy-go-lucky and an enjoyer of showers.
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Yajun Zhang
Yajun is a recovering journalist and current communications professional. Growing up in China put her front and center to one of the greatest transformations in history. Living in France for a couple of years taught her how to appreciate the good life. Listening to This American Life taught her how to appreciate a good podcast. She’s putting it all together and is now the producer and hostess of Wo Men Podcast, a platform for telling China’s story and glimpses of this Chinese life. You can reach her at womenpodcast@outlook.com
3 Posts
Yang Wenling
Yang Wenling is a student at Southwest University, Chongqing, majoring in English. She is interested in intercultural studies.
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Zhu Xiaofeng
Zhu Xiaofeng graduated from Tsinghua University with a degree in translation and intercultural studies, and now lives in Chongqing. He has worked as a university lecturer and translator. Click on the icon below to read some of his work.
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