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The GoChengdoo Team
Want to be on this list? We're constantly looking for bloggers and photobloggers to help us expand the site.
We prefer contributors who can post at least once a week. If you have a specific area of interest that can be a weekly or semi-weekly column on GoChengdoo.com, send us a message with your ideas! Even if you don't have a specific area of interest but can write, let us know, and we'll try to get you involved in some way.
GoChengdoo contributors are currently not paid, but do occasionally get hooked up with free stuff.
Annie
When Annie moved to her first apartment, she started cooking and realized she couldn't deal with cutting meat. So she became vegetarian. Realizing the other benefits of vegetarianism, she joined PETA. Apart from contributing to CHENGDOO citylife, blogging about her kitchen experiments and her travels, she is a freelance Chinese teacher who has been trying, unsuccessfully, for years to persuade her foreign students to blog in Chinese. And although she was born and raised in Sichuan, she can't stand spicy or oily food.
Annie's posts >>Chris
A former pizza cook, recovering business journalist and avid cyclist, Chris first came to Chengdu as a traveler in 1999 and instantly fell in love with the city - especially its people and food.
In addition to contributing to GoChengdoo, Chris is also editor of GoKunming, a frequent contributor to a variety of books and magazines and managing director of Meridian Group - a consultancy he founded in 2005.
Chris's posts >>Dan
Dan studied industrial/scientific photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography and moved to Chengdu in 2008. In addition to the weekly photo gallery he keeps on his website, Dan blogs and co-hosts the weekly Afterthoughts podcast. He enjoys biking, hiking, playing guitar, and hanging out with friends.
Dan's posts >>Fran
Fran arrived in Chengdu in 2006, for reasons that she herself is now unsure of, and set about performing the classic English-teacher/Chinese-student double-act. A procrastinator and obsessive blog-reader, some say she is addicted to the Internet, while others say she's plain lazy. The truth might lie somewhere in between. Aside from teaching, studying, and, perusing the China blogosphere for GoChengdoo, she spends the rest of her time eating, scooting around dangerously, and scrapping with an imaginatively named evil little thing called "Kitten."
Fran's posts >>Jane
Jane (小真) is a half-breed Chinese American from Los Angeles who moved to China in 2004 after graduating from university. Originally intending to stay only one year, once she settled in Chengdu in 2005, she found it increasingly difficult to leave. She has worn many hats in China, including as office worker, English teacher, Mandarin student, foreign accessory. In addition to editing GoChengdoo, she edits the magazine she co-founded in 2007, CHENGDOO citylife, makes zines, and organizes local events such as Your Secondhand Life secondhand market.
Jane's posts >>Joe
Joe's multi-tasking involvement in co-founding Chengdoo Citylife Magazine and GoChengdoo is part of Joe's ambition to contribute to Chenggdu's cultural life, which includes organizing and promoting art and music events and regular appearances behind the DJ decks.
Joe's posts >>Marvin
Marvin came from Hunan province to Chengdu to study medicine in 2006. After founding an English-language paper for his fellow students, he realized his interests lie in magazines, not medicine. He would like to create his own magazine in the future, a goal for which he's preparing while finishing his studies.
Marvin's posts >>Matthew
Matthew handles the techie stuff on GoChengdoo. He's never worked outside greater China, having embarked upon self-imposed exile from the UK in the summer of 1998. When he's not worrying how much he can afford to spend on his next machine, he's likely to be poking about with HTTP pipelining, bash scripts, or planning some as yet unrealised PHP/MySQL masterpiece.
Matthew's posts >>Michal
Photographer Michal arrived in Chengdu in 2006 from Ilawa, Poland. Alongside full-time work and shooting for GoChengdoo and CHENGDOO citylife, he organizes occasional small-scale photography exhibitions with other Chengdu-based photographers. Formerly a music and movies reviewer for several Polish publications, including Infomusic.pl, he will talk to you non-stop about Wang Kar Wai, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, and Radiohead. Among his favorite photography subjects are candid shots, urban abstracts, and the displays at Ikea. View Michal's Flickr photostream.
Michal's posts >>Tian
Tian is a final-year university student in Ningbo, Zhejiang. She majors in business and management, which is so not where her talent lies. But she doesn't regret it because she chose this major in order to become a business and economic journalist. And she now considers GoChengdoo as part of realizing her journalism dream. Tian contributes news translations to the site.
Tian's posts >>Zining
In English, her name translates to Purple, and that's what some people call her. She came to Chengdu from Guangdong in 2007 to study teaching Chinese as a second language. Apart from her involvement in Chengdoo Magazine and GoChengdoo.com, Purple is a fan of movies, music, traveling, and photography, and she can often be spotted at Chengdu's home of rock, the Little Bar. She believes the most precious things in life are memories and experiences, so she always wants to be on the road.
Zining's posts >>