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. When he's not busy editing Shanghaiist, Kenneth can be found indulging himself in a bubble bath dreaming of world domination while his cat sits on the edge of the tub. He is also a co-founder of
ShanghaiPRIDE, mainland China's first full-fledged LGBT pride festival.
Jessica is a Pacific Northwest native (think top-left, USA) who arrived in Shanghai a recovering economic crisis victim in the summer of 2009. Jobless, homeless and broke after a failed gig in Africa, she got a job teaching with vague plans to expand her two semesters of Chinese into total fluency. She now finds herself one of a very small handful of Anglo females with a China media obsession, and plans eventually to return to school within that field. But for now, she spends her time studying Chinese, chasing freebies and avoiding clubs.
Dan quit his
newspaper job in the U.S. to move to Shanghai in 2002. He founded Shanghaiist in 2005. When he is not driving his
taxi, Dan works as a writer, and has contributed to such publications as
Slate,
Financial Times Weekend Magazine, ESPN.com,
Golf World,
Golf Digest,
GOOD,
Budget Travel, Economist.com and the
South China Morning Post. He is currently working on a book about the
development of golf in China for Oneworld Publications in Oxford, England. Visit him online
here.
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. Besides laboring for the Internet, she spends her free time dropping knowledge, saving lives and making stupid faces at cameras.
