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.

Dan quit his newspaper job in the Bible Belt to move to Shanghai in 2002. He founded Shanghaiist in 2005 and has been amazingly wealthy ever since. He works as a writer, maintains a personal website (he stopped updating this one in 2007) ... and in 2006 he got married and adopted the two cutest dogs in Shanghai. When he is not driving his taxi, Dan tries to find time to work on his upcoming book about golf in China.

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.

Pete is yet another New Jersey resident, hailing (proudly) from the state's capital. Having only been in Shanghai for less than a year, he is a newcomer to the world of Shanghainese, xiao long bao, and hot weather. In between graduation and his arrival in Shanghai, Pete spent a year in the "Ice City" of Harbin, spreading the Jersey accent like the plague (a glass of "wooder", please). When not bragging about living on the same street as the anthrax post office, he can be found roaming around Pudong looking for a flight (or canoe) to head over to Puxi.

"Swiss" James is a prolific blogger, so-so photographer, and table-football supremo. He enjoys binge drinking, riding ferries and teasing crickets. His ambition is to eat yu xiang qie zi in every restaurant in Shanghai, and do two laps of the 100 shot menu at the Blue Frog on Tongren Lu.

Ada Fredelius, grew tired of reporting on nuclear plants and left Stockholm for Shanghai in 2008. She enjoys silent movies, neon lights and the limited Chinese vegetarian cuisine.

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.

Dedric landed in Shanghai at the turn of the century from Australia via Malaysia. A self deprecating, reclusive, repressed artist cum writer who is linguistically challenged, Dedric is a self confessed socialmediaholic who hides in the world of online social networks to escape from his real life of running business conferences and managing events across Asia. Dedric is also a father of 2 adorably demanding children who loves the opportunity to not act his age.

Rebekah is a travel bum who enjoys randomness and weirdos. She's been kicked out of countries from A to Z (Australia-Zimbabwe), spent time in a township jail in South Africa, been arrested in China, attended university on 3 continents (Europe, North America, Africa) and worked on 5 continents. She's worked such odd jobs as a chef in England, a Guinness pourer in Ireland, a chicken killer in Canada, a champagne pourer on a yacht in Australia, a cook for a professor's dog in Italy and a tour guide from South Africa to Mozambique. She has lost count of the number of phones she's lost and countries she's visited. Rebekah dislikes carnations, babies, French wine and exclamation points. She is fond of sharp kitchen knives, large accessories and creative tattoos. Her life mantra is: 'Not all who wander are lost' by J.R.R Tolkien. She works as an editor/writer for Ctrip and ChinaTravel.net.

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.

Derek was mired in a post-collegiate funk, selling books to children out of a van, when he decided to make a great leap forward by moving to Shanghai in 2006. When not writing for Shanghaiist, he spends his time wandering city streets throughout the worker's paradise, visiting every single tourist attraction (no matter how boring) and writing about it for Chinatrackers. Derek is originally from Kansas City and often gets nostalgic (salivates) when the word 'barbeque' is mentioned.

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.

Singapore lass Sue Anne doesn't know how she landed in Shanghai. After a decade spent studying and doing nerdy foreign policy research in the US, she's finds herself happily working for "The Man" in Shanghai's bright lights big city. Pudong is her playground of choice for she finds it a burgeoning, veritable playground teeming with possibilities. Sue Anne enjoys sarcasm served with a side of wit.

Executive Editor and co-founder: Jen Chung

Publisher and co-founder: Jake Dobkin

Technology Director: Neil Epstein