Elaine first found herself in Shanghai in the late 90s, back when bicycles still outnumbered cars and going to Pizza Hut was a big deal. Now after a stint in New York, she's back in the city again, making gadget writing seem sexy and city blogging even sexier. Besides laboring for the Internet, she spends her free time dropping knowledge, saving lives and making stupid faces at cameras.

During his first visit to the pearl of the orient last year, Cary found himself mindlessly wading through throngs of onlookers, trying to figure out what the commotion was all about. Eventually, he realized that it was the Olympic Torch Procession passing through. Shortly after, he also realized that his passport and wallet had been stolen in the crowd. Being a native New Yorker, he was able to easily adapt to living on the streets, picking soda bottles out of the trash for money and sleeping on benches in People's Park, waiting for Western Union to whisk him back to the States. But as the old saying goes, Shanghai me once, shame on you, Shanghai me twice...Now, Cary spends his time playing in bands, saving the world from terrorism, and searching for a halfway decent slice of pizza.

Dan quit his newspaper job in the U.S. to move to Shanghai in 2002. He founded Shanghaiist in 2005 and has been counting his Maojamins ever since. When he is not driving his taxi, Dan works as a writer, and has contributed to such publications as Financial Times Weekend Magazine, ESPN.com, Golf World, GOOD, Budget Travel, Economist.com, Outside's GO, Business China (part of The Economist), Baseball America and the South China Morning Post. Visit him online here.

After a short stint in Cologne, Singapore-born Kenneth Tan arrived in Shanghai with a one-way ticket and a backpack in January 2003, stuck it out in a youth hostel for two months and stayed on ever since. He is the city's most notorious media whore public relations specialist turned underwear salesman who has been known to flash his latest designs to unsuspecting customers and journalists in his store. In his spare time, Kenneth can be found indulging himself in a bubble bath dreaming of world domination while his cat sits on the edge of the tub.

Most experts contend that Eric, our Food Editor, most likely peaked when he placed 2nd in his 1st grade spelling bee. In the two decades since, he's been on a mission to recapture that glory, a journey that has taken him from his home-base of sunny California (both south and north) to his ancestral home on the mainland. After nearly five years here, four of which were spent laboring for the same corporate giant, he’s now running his own motion graphics/design studio while loving every minute of the hot, thumping, craziness that is Shanghai. Look him up whenever you come across some great value eats, or if you discover the only thing that’s been missing in his life: a delicious and authentic California style burrito. Nothing with cucumbers, please.

After years of studying humanities and cultural journalism in various Swedish cities, Kirsti, utterly unwillingly, had to leave the cozy university bubble to venture out into the "real world", as they call it. Although her heart was (and still is) in the northern "left wing" city of Umeå, she chose to find the "real world" overseas, and so in April 2009 she tumbled down in Shanghai. As curious as she is about most things, Kirsti has an extra romantic love affair with the cultural sphere - thus her pen is most inspired when writing about dance, film, theatre, art, gender- and LGBT-related issues. In Shanghai she has found herself excessively trying out new dance floors, eating great vegetarian Chinese food, watching the vivid elderly park gymnastics and using the phrase "ting bu dong"...

On arrival in Kunming in the summer of 2007, Maggie, our Sports Editor, quickly found herself in the middle of the Chinese sports boom. In just one year, she has worked out with China's women's soccer team, drank Tsing Tsao with the coach of the men's basketball team and played the best golf course in China. She is the editor of China Sports Today, a new site about the China sports scene, and writes a weekly Chinese-language sports column for the 21st Century Business Herald. Maggie is based in Beijing and unwinds from chasing after stories by playing basketball at the Dongdan courts and coaching water polo at a Beijing sports school.

Beijing back in '04 fascinated Wee Ling with its strange clash of new and old, so much that she decided to return after she finished school proper but a chance opportunity led her from Singapore to Shanghai instead. These days Wee Ling is working on taking better party/street photos, among other things. In the meantime, she can usually be spotted at random street-side food stalls trying to recreate fond memories of Newton Hawker Centre and Blk 85 in Bedok back home.

Edna is an ABC hailing from both Pennsylvania and Shanghai- so yes, she enjoys totally dropping the Hs from her Putonghua, but no, you'll never catch her with an umbrella on a sunny day. She has a degree in political science but no idea what to do with it, so until she finds her calling, she'll take all the quiz nights and Gaelic football and brunch-ing that Shanghai has to offer. Edna is a pescetarian with a monster appetite and constantly prowling for a proper bowl of malatang. She's rarely seen outside the French Concession, and never ever seen without a camera in hand.

Executive Editor and co-founder: Jen Chung

Publisher and co-founder: Jake Dobkin

Technology Director: Neil Epstein