Resume
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Freelance Writing
Time Out: Beijing
Classical and Performance Editor, covering Beijing's theatre and dance
events (November 2005-present) and classical music and opera events (March 2006-present). Monthly columnist: "Get Involved", profiling
NGOs, charitable organizations, and volunteer opportunities (June 2005-present); "Visitor's Page," providing cultural / tourist
information (August 2005-March 2006). Feature writer (June 2005 to present).
Features
"Plots Thicken" - South China Morning Post, October, 2006.
“Baton Charge”, Macau Tatler, November 2007.
"They’re a crafty lot", South China Morning Post, June 1, 2007.
"Boy Wonder" (Peng Peng Gong), South China Morning Post, April 16, 2007
"Spills ‘n’ thrills and ballet aches", Time Out: Beijing, Feature, December 2006.
"Plots thicken", South China Morning Post, October 10, 2006.
"Italian takeaway", Gramophone UK, October 2006.
“Requiem for a dream”, Time Out: Beijing, Feature, October 2006.
“Agri-cultural revolution”, Time Out: Beijing, Food Section Feature, July 2006.
“Bending over backwards”, Time Out: Beijing, Feature, February 2006.
“Past imperfect”, Time Out: Beijing, Part of Cover Feature, October 2005.
“Cycle logical”, Time Out: Beijing, Section Cover Feature, October 2005.
“Design for life”, Time Out: Beijing, Section Cover Feature, September 2005.
“Hospital-ity.” Time Out: Beijing, Section Cover Feature, August 2005.
“Get loose on juice.” That’s Beijing Health Feature, July 2005.
“China’s ethnic minoriities: an invaluable part of Chinese history.” Asian Wisconzine, with original photographs, June 2005.
“Soy sauce, water, and a passion for learning: WWF China’s Education Initiative for Water project.” WWF Website, City Weekend and China Daily, March 2005, http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/on_the_ground/news.cfm?uNewsID=19221.
“Cha Li, the Chinese Tea ‘Feeling.’” Eye Candy Magazine, with original photographs, September 2004.
“Search and Rescue: Dog Adoption in Beijing.” That’s Beijing, with original photographs, January 2004.
"Queens of Beijing." That's Beijing cover feature (wrote four of nine pieces), with one original photograph, March 2005.
Time Out: Beijing Magazine writing
Classical Editor, covering Beijing’s classical music, opera, Chinese opera and Chinese traditional music events (March 2006 to present); Performance Editor, covering Beijing’s theater and dance events (November 2005 to present). Monthly columnist: “Get Involved”, profiling social issues and volunteer opportunities(June 2005-present); “Visitor’s Page,” covering cultural and tourist information (August 2005-March 2006); Staff Writer (June 2005-present).
Time Out: Beijing Performance and Classical Section Preivews and Boxes
“Up in the clouds”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preivew, July 2007.
“The prodigy problem”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, July 2007.
“The brass ring”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, July 2007.
“King of Beijing”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, June 2007.
“The perfect storm”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, June 2007.
“Three to key” (Jacky Terrasson, David Fray, Dana Ciocarlie), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, June 2007.
“Passion and poison”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, June 2007.
“The art of dance” (Kader Belarbi), Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, May 2007.
“La Fura dels Baus”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, May 2007.
“Fiddler on the hoof”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, May 2007.
“Debussy String Quartet”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, May 2007.
“Festival season”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, April 2007.
“Yan Yu”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, April 2007.
“Diva redefined” (Renee Fleming), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, April 2007.
“Rolls-Royce London Symphony Orchestra”, Classical Section Box, April 2007.
“Homecoming queens”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, March 2007.
“Twist and shout”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, March 2007.
“Renaud’s return” (Renaud Capucon), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, March 2007.
“Latin mass” (David Gomez), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, March 2007.
“King Henri” (Henri Ougike), Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, February 2007.
“Ballet up”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, February 2007.
“The digital tenor” (Fan Jingma), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, February 2007.
“Living the dream”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, January 2007.
“Thunder struck”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, January 2007.
“Mr. Music”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, January 2007.
“Winter remedy”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, January 2007.
“Journey to the West (End)”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, December 2006.
“Duelling pianos” (Lang Lang and Yundi Li), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, December 2006.
“Blossoming passion”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, November 2006.
“La Scala”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, November 2006.
“A new dawn”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, November 2006.
“King of the singers” (King’s Singers), Time Out: Beijing, Classcial Section Box, November 2006.
“Above the norm” (Jessye Norman), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, October 2006.
“Crossing point”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, October 2006.
“Dolly mixtures”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, September 2006.
“Monkey magic”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, September 2006.
“Pomp up the volume”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, September 2006.
“Moscow Virtuosi”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, September 2006.
“Generation ex”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, August 2006.
“Consultants of swing”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, August 2006.
“Percussion Claviers de Lyon”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, August 2006.
“Give me drama”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, July 2006.
“Psitt!! Psitt!!”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, July 2006.
“Girl power choir” (Cantamus Choir), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, July 2006.
“Li Chuanyun”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, July 2006.
“Petit’s grande ballet” (Roland Petit), Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, June 2006.
“The incredible string band”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, June 2006.
“Electric superconductor” (Li Delun), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, June 2006.
“Piano-forte”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, June 2006.
“Ashes to ashes”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, May 2006.
“Where nations collide”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, May 2006.
“Double trouble” (Carlos Prieto and Trey Lee), Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, May 2006.
“Eugenia Garza”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, May 2006.
“Greet and meet”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, April 2006.
“Coming up for aria”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview, April 2006.
“Peter Brugger”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, April 2006.
“Ibsen facto”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, March 2006.
“Aterballeto”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, March 2006.
“Russian throught the classics”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, February 2006.
“Priced out”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, February 2006.
“Drum n’ baste” (Nanta), Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preview, January 2006.
“Broadway Asia”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Preivew, December 2005.
“Screen play”, Time Out: Beijing, Performance Section Box, December 2005.
Time Out: Get Involved
“Chi Heng Foundation”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, July 2007.
“Compassion for migrant children”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, June 2007.
“Children’s Hope International”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, May 2007.
“Green map”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, April 2007.
“Beijing International Team Enrichment (BITE)”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, March 2007.
“Blossom Institute”, Time Out: Beijng, Column, February 2007.
“No plastic bags campaign”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, January 2007.
“Holiday events”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, December 2006.
“The Lugu Lake Mosuo Cultural Development Association”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, November 2006.
“PTE 30-30 Fundraiser”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, October 2006.
“IFAW”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, September 2006.
“The Yunnan Mountain Heritage Foundation”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, August 2006.
“Roots and Shoots”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, July 2006.
“Hope Foster Home”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, June 2006.
“Magic Hospital”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, May 2006.
“The Sun Village Research Institute,” Time Out: Beijing, Column, April 2006.
“Beijing Human and Animal Environmental Centre”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, March 2006.
“The Hua Dan Project”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, February 2006.
“Friends of Nature”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, January 2006.
“New Day Foster Home”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, December 2005.
“Green Rooftop Project”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, November 2005.
“On your bike”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, October 2005.
“Khamaid”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, September 2005.
“The Maple Women’s Psychological Counselling Centre”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, August 2005.
“26 Degrees Campaign”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, July 2005.
“HIV/AIDS work in China”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, June 2005.
Time Out: Visitors Box
“Let’s go fly a kite”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, March 2006.
“Traditional Chinese massage”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, February 2006.
“Temple fairs”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, January 2006.
“Tailor made”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, December 2005.
“Traditional crafts”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, November 2005.
“Chinese opera”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, October 2005.
“To the teahouse”, Time Out: Beijing, Column, September 2005.
Travel
"Luo Bo Ren Village, Xinjiang Province, Northwest China." Asian Wisconsizine , with one original photograph. July 2005.
"China: Off the Beaten Track." Time Out: Beijing cover feature, wrote three of five pieces, with original photographs. June 2005.
"Haunted City: Moguicheng, Xinjiang Province, Northwest China." Asian Wisconzine, with one original photograph, June 2005.
"Water Colors." That's Beijing, with original photographs, April 2005.
"The Village of Liu Gong, Guizhou Province, South China." Asian Wisconzine, with original photographs, March 2005.
"Sparkling Gray." Lifetime Society Communiqué, a division of International Living Magazine, June 2004, Vol 2, No. 12, www.InternationalLiving.com.
"What to Bring: Indispensables for the Budget Traveler." Transitions Abroad. Nov/Dec 2003, www.TransitionsAbroad.com.
Essays
"Nonno's Advice."Living Magazine, Summer 2005
"A Monolinguist Abroad." InsideOut Travel, with original photographs, December 2004, www.insideoutmag.com.
"How I Learned to Stop Listening and Start Traveling."** Go World Travel, November 2004, www.GoWorldTravel.com.
"My Mother's Legacy." Living Magazine, September 2004. (originally "My Mother's Book")
"Passport: Hall Pass to the World." Go World Travel, Jul 2004, www.GoWorldTravel.com.
"My Mother's Book." ** Long Island Woman, May 2004.
** Award winnner
Reviews
“Sting: not as painful as first thought”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Box, February 2007.
“Go with the grain”, Time Out: Beijing, Classical Section Preview (review), August 2006.
Sky Burial, by Xinran. Time Out: Beijing, August 2005.
The Honest Courtesan, by Margaret Rosenthal. Eye Candy Magazine, February, 2005.
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling, by Ross King. Eye Candy Magazine, Nov-Dec 2004.
The Artist’s Way, by Julia Cameron. Eye Candy Magazine, October 2004.
Books & Anthologies
Beijing. EASI-ER Publishing, Due out 2007.
“A Monolinguist Abroad.” 100-word sidebar. Traveler’s Tales: China, July 2004, p. 10.
Through Western Eyes: Korea. Whittier Publishing, NY 1998, with original photographs. First and Second Editions. 346 pp.
Related Lectures
Guest Lecturer, SUNY Farmingdale, NY. Presented a series of three-hour lectures to university Sociology classes about Korean culture which focused on culture of the life cycle, such as traditions and practices concerning weddings, marriage, pregnancy, childbirth, education, old age and funerals [fall 97-spring 98].
Television / Radio - Writing & Presenting
China
Radio Writer / Presenter, Dell English Program - China Radio International (CRI). Present phrases and idiomatic expressions for daily one-minute program running every half hour, seven days a week, write and edit copy, which appears weekly in Beijing Evening News [summer 05-present]
Television Writer / Presenter, Olympic English - Beijing Television (BTV) 6. Presented items of Olympic history for weekly television show played on over twenty channels throughout China, taught key words and phrases, wrote and edited copy [spring 03-spring 04].
Television Writer / Presenter, New TOEFL - China Educational Television (CETV). Wrote and performed thirty twenty-minute shows for myself and host, instructed viewers on taking the Listening Section of the TOEFL (Teaching of English as a Foreign Language) exam, taught idioms, listening comprehension, and how to answer multi-sectioned timed questions [summer 03].
Video Presenter, Beijing World Press - Educational VCD. Taught pronunciation for Educational VCD (Video Compact Disc) Grasp the English Pronunciation. Edited copy [spring 03].
Online Instructor, Dell International English. One of two instructors chosen to teach special online conversational English classes during Beijing's SARS period (schools were closed), which were later used for student recruitment [spring 02].
Korea
Television Writer / Presenter, Korean National Educational Broadcasting Systems (EBS). Co-hosted weekly thirty-minute TV TOEIC (Teaching of English as International Communication) program training those preparing to take the TOEIC exam. Wrote and edited televised copy, trained new presenters, wrote training manual on television performance, consulted school chairman on casting of successive television shows [spring '96-spring '97].
Television Writer / Presenter, MBC National Network Television. Acted as Conversation Partner in nationally televised Pan-Asian English Contest, aided contestants in creating conversations based on specific role-play situations. Wrote and advised on conversational situations [summer 96].
Television Interviews
China
Interview subject, China Central Television International (CCTV) 9. Was interviewed as writer / photographer for Bannerman Tang's Craft Store, a fifth generation traditional Chinese craft shop; wrote explanations of crafts and did photography for website and store displays [winter 02].
United States
Interview subject, CAS Cherry Point Television, North Carolina. Participated in the Bank of Arts Exhibition for the Commemorative 50th Anniversary of the Korean Conflict, which featured my book, Through Western Eyes: Korea, and a display of original photographs [spring 00].
Awards & Membership Organizations
Long Island Press Club Society of Professional Journalists Award First Prize Opinion/Essay: "My Mother's Book." June 2005.
WIWA Whildbey Island Writer's Conference Benefactor's Award Third Prize Non Fiction: "How I learned to Stop Listening and Start Traveling." March 2005.
Member, Whidbey Island Writer's Association, (WIWA).
Education
Buffalo, NY
Graduated Magna Cum Laude from SUNY Buffalo, with BA degrees in English Literature and Political Science [spring 94].
Ed2Go Online Education
Completed courses: Travel Writing, Craft of Magazine Writing, Writing Your Life Story, Writeriffic, Writeriffic 2, with Eva Shaw, PhD, Instructor.
New York Institute of Photography (NYIP)
Currently studying NYIP's three-year online course: Complete Course in Professional Photography.