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The GoChengdoo Team

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.

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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