Mark Andrews

Freelance writer based in Shanghai

My first paid travel article appeared in 2000 and since then I have written about everything from Japanese houses to heli hikes on New Zealand glaciers, test drives of Chinese cars to bar and restaurant reviews.

Currently I specialise in travel articles and reviews of Chinese cars plus articles about the Chinese auto industry.

Originally hailing from the south west of England I have travelled extensively throughout Asia and Australasia. After well over a combined 20 years living in Tokyo, Seoul, and Shanghai I am now once again largely based in the UK.

Previous work experience includes a year in a former FTSE100 company’s marketing department, various English teaching jobs and working for a British university in China.

My writing on travel includes such aspects as food and drink, festivals, quirky museums, transportation, culture, history, and wildlife.

Furthermore, I am one of the leading English language writers and reviewers of the Chinese auto industry.

Following the publication of my first proper book Driving the Dragon I am in the process of working on a number of book projects including my first novel.

Published articles have appeared in the following publications:

Airline inflight magazines: American Way, Hemispheres, Vera, Blue Wings, Morning Calm, Open Skies, Colours, Silkroad, Discovery, Silkwinds, Going Places, Scoot, Tiger Tales, Paradise, Selamta, Serendib, Tengri, Renaissance, Travel 3 Sixtyº, Jetstar, UO Magazine, Priority.

Newspapers: The Sunday Times, Telegraph, South China Morning Post (plus the Post Magazine), Sydney Morning Herald, Japan Times, Straits Times, The National, Gulf News, Korea Herald, New Seoul News, Jerusalem Post Magazine.

Magazines: Vacations & Travel, British Heritage, Australia & New Zealand Magazine, BNE Magazine, World Travel Magazine, SALT, Preferred Travel Magazine, World of Cruising, Nikkei Asian Review, Auto Express, Autocar, Audi Magazine, Audi Magazine (Hong Kong), Classic Cars, Devon Life, Transitions Abroad, Stardom, Metropolis (Tokyo Classified), Kansai Time Out, Kansai Scene, att, Eat Japan, That’s Shanghai, That’s Beijing, That’s China, That’s PRD, City Weekend, Laowai, Talk, Shanghai Family, Vantage Shanghai, Eurobiz, The Bridge, China Economic Review, BizShanghai, Shanghai Business Review (SBR), China Automotive Review, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Magazine, Lenzing Inside, South East Asia Globe, Aggregates Business International, MG Enthusiast, Skin Deep.

Online or mobile phone content: Vertu Select, TripAdvisor (content for mobile phone I believe), Rail.co, Inner Circle, Great Escape Publishing, World Highways, Sixth Tone, International Living, HKTDC Research (articles appear under a different writer’s name), Men With Style Asia, Lightfoot Travel, Car Design News, CBD Intel.