ABOUT AUTHOR

Graham Bond is a freelance travel writer and photojournalist. He has travelled extensively throughout Asia and has spent the last five years living and working in mainland China.

Graham previously worked as a news reporter with the Trinity Mirror Newspaper Group in the UK. More recently, he was deputy editor of leisure travel magazine, Asia and Away in Shanghai.

As a freelancer, his stories and photographs have been published across the world. He has contributed to The Times (London), the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong), and the Australian (Sydney). He is also the author of several guidebooks, including the AA's Spiral China and Frommer's Shanghai Day by Day. He is currently in the UK but will return to China in early 2009. For a complete CV please write to graham@grahambond.com.