Editorial

Contributors

Posted by Jeremy Goldkorn, July 14, 2007 12:28 PM

Regular and previous Danwei contributors are listed below. You can email using the contributor's first name with @danwei.org. If you want to contact guest contributors, please email the Danwei editor who posted the guest's article.

Jeremy Goldkorn founded Danwei in 2003, and acts as editor-in-chief and publisher.

A native of South Africa, Goldkorn moved to China in 1995. He has lived in a workers dormitory, ridden a bicycle across Xinjiang and Tibet, and spent the last decade working in the Chinese media, advertising and Internet industries. He produced the documentary African Boots of Beijing. He is frequently profiled in the Chinese media, while the Western press regularly solicit his views on media regulation, Internet business, freedom of expression, and the habits of young Chinese Internet users (see our press coverage page). Goldkorn is a regular public speaker at both Chinese- and English-language conferences and events.

Joel Martinsen began contributing to Danwei in 2004 and is currently managing editor. Originally from the Washington, DC suburbs, Martinsen arrived in China in 2000. After a stint teaching English in the northeast, he came to Beijing to study modern Chinese literature at Beijing Normal University.

Martinsen runs a personal blog, Twelve Hours Later, that focuses on Chinese science fiction and fantasy, and he comments elsewhere under the id zhwj.

Banyue is from Henan Province in China and was born after 1980. As well as helping Danwei to interpret the culture of post-1980s Chinese youth, Banyue researches and writes about Internet and youth culture, news media, and multinational brands as they are discussed on the Chinese Internet.

Eric Mu met the founder of Danwei, Jeremy, in the summer of 2007 when he was an university student doing a temporary job as a shop attendant in a bookstore. It was Jeremy's encouragement that rekindled his childhood dream of making a living through writing and in English−something not even in his dream. Now he is doing newspapers-based translations and summaries for Danwei.

Lydia Wallace has lived off and on in China since 2004. She has flirted with teaching English and helped to open a western-style cafe in Dali before settling down to work in media in Beijing. She traveled to Sichuan soon after the May 12th earthquake to produce a series of profiles and photographs of earthquake survivors published on Danwei. She is currently acting as managing editor of Danwei.

She runs a person blog at fiferis.com.

Robert Ness came to China on Uncle Sam's tab, and hopes to pay him back the favor someday soon. After studying the language, he landed a dream job at a well known Chinese company. After one month, they gave him a contract to sign, and he ran the other way. He landed in Chengdu where he worked at a Tibetan NGO. Later he attended the Hopkins Nanjing Center.

At Danwei, Robert produces podcasts, works on business development and is involved in planning our ongoing series of events in Beijing. He occasionally writes about mobile phone media for Danwei.

Adam Schokora hosts DanweiTV's "The Shanghai Beat" which he produces together with Ginger Xiang. In his other spare time he helps grease the wheels of capitalism in the PRC as a digital and social media strategist for Edelman.

Now based in Shanghai full time, Adam is originally from Detroit and has been in China since 1999. He is curious about technology, youth culture, music, design, fashion, and motorcycle's; not to mention his passion for Chinese language and the Internet. Adam graduated with highest distinction from the University of Michigan with degrees in Chinese politics and Mandarin.

Mauro Marescialli writes about advertising and branding for Danwei. He is a founding partner and general manager of advertising and brand identity agency Standards Group.

Marescialli is also a co-founder of online stock music provider Sound Factor.

Marescialli first arrived in Beijing in 1987 to study Chinese. He visited the city again in 1990 and 1991 to research his Masters thesis on the development of Chinese copywriting, moving permanently to Beijing in 1995. He is a born and bred Roman, and a Masters graduate of the University of Rome

Dror Poleg Dror Poleg writes about internet, branding, and foreign affairs for Danwei. Dror arrived to China in 2002, and settled permanently in Beijing in the beginning of 2005.

Through his consultancy firm, Dror advises business and government organizations on strategic communication and marketing. In addition, he is the China Marketing Manager for Kardan Group, an international investment company active mainly in the Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Financial Services sectors.

Dror designed Danwei's first commercial version and played a major part in turning the site from a blog into a business.

Guest contributors include journalists, scholars, and specialists in Chinese business, media and culture.

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