About Me

George Ding was born in Beijing and moved to the lush, yuppie suburbs of Washington D.C. at the age of four. He received a B.A. in Film Production with a minor in East Asian Languages and Cultures from the University of Southern California. After graduation, George took a two-month trip to Beijing and has lived there ever since. He currently works as a freelance writer and English teacher. He is the editor of The Hypermodern, an intellectual blog about China; a writer for Project Pengyou, an NGO promoting positive US-China relations; and the back-page columnist for the Beijinger, the premiere expat magazine in Beijing. Aside from work, he also enjoys reading, philosophy, and video games. George finds it incredibly disorienting and, frankly, a bit arrogant to write about himself in the third person.