Lu-Hai Liang

Lu-Hai Liang is a multimedia journalist and writer.

• Video for The Press Association
• Words (& Photos) for Aljazeera, Business Insider, BBC Future, BBC Future Planet, BBC News, Inkstone, New Statesman, CNN, Forbes, The Guardian, The Independent, The Independent on Sunday, CNN Travel, The Cornell Enterprise, Wanderlust, Space, Nine MSN, Nikkei Asian Review, Marie Claire (Netherlands & South Africa), Attitude, Dazed & Confused, IGN, Paste, Eurogamer, TheGamer, GamingBible, Kotaku, The Daily Telegraph, Penguin, The Atlantic, Covert literary magazine, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Willowherb Review, The National, Foreign Policy, UnderPinned, BBC Worklife, and WIRED.
• Presenter for Tribal China – an international documentary
• Camera Assistant for Olympic Broadcasting Services at London 2012 Olympics.

Contact: luhai_liang@hotmail.com

Twitter: @LuHai_Liang

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Short bio 

Lu-Hai Liang is a British-Chinese journalist and writer. He was based in Beijing for six years. He has been published widely in international media. 

These include The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Foreign Policy, Wired, The Atlantic, New Statesman, Aljazeera, Daily Telegraph, Dazed, Eurogamer, The Independent, and Nikkei Asian Review, among others. 

Longer bio

Liang was born in Guilin, China, and was moved to the United Kingdom aged five, and grew up in the seaside town of Hastings in southeast England. 

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I completed a bachelors degree in multimedia journalism at Bournemouth University in 2012. Following a summer working as a camera assistant for OBS at the London 2012 Olympic Games, I decided to move to Beijing.

My first job in the Chinese capital was listings editor at the magazine, The Beijinger, promoted from paid intern. After a summer break at home in England, I returned to Beijing in autumn 2013 and this blog was born, tracking my life and career as a journalist in Beijing. 

I was based in Beijing from 2012 to 2018.

These six years were a heady, adventurous, difficult, lonely, rewarding, thrilling, impactful yet oddly unsatisfying time, like a tempestuous love affair. 

I have visited Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and North Korea. And I often wrote reports and features about my host countries.   

From 2019 to September 2020, I was a roving, nomadic, freelance journalist endlessly criss-crossing southeast and east Asia, until the pandemic decided to end it.   

These days I am trying to become a published author and I am a cohort of the 2021 HarperCollins author academy. 

(Samples of my work)

The psychology behind ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’ 

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Myanmar monks feel the pressure of tourism 

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Is North Korea on your tourism bucket list?

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Inside the weird world of Chinese romance video games

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Where exactly are my British Chinese role models?

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Prada in Pyongyang: North Korea’s new look

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It’s not Communism holding China’s youth back. It’s their parents. 

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I chose to become a migrant, and learned to be a freelancer 

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Meet Colin Huang, who just stepped down as CEO of $100 billion Pinduoduo

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Apple and Samsung duke it out in South Korea

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The surprising place some Korean women are going for a career boost