Andrew Vanburen, China correspondent

NextInsight writer, photographer and translator Andrew Vanburen has fully covered Greater China in a variety of capacities, starting it all off as a volunteer in Hong Kong working with Vietnamese boat people prior to the return of the SAR to the PRC.

After working as a writer for two of Taiwan’s three English language dailies, he moved on to become a trade officer for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) at the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), the de-facto US embassy in Taipei, as well as a research analyst with Dresdner Bank, commissioned with assessing the performance of blue chip name-brand items on the island.

Following an academic leave to earn a master’s degree from New York University (NYU) with a concentration in East Asian history and politics and a thesis on Taiwan cinema, Andrew returned to Taiwan to become a lead editor at The China Post and weekly editorial writer for the island’s leading English daily.

From 2003 until recently, he was an editor and writer at XFN-Asia (Xinhua Finance) in Beijing, before joining NextInsight in April 2009.


新世野网站（NextInsight.com）驻中国深圳特派记者、摄影师兼翻译员Andrew Vanburen，成经从事各行各业走遍中港台。而这一切始于他在香港特别行政区回归之前服侍越南难民时所作的志愿者工作。

台湾英文报社仅有三家，Andrew就在其中两家当过记者以及编辑。之后，他转业成为美国驻台办事处 (美国在台协会 AIT）附属美国农业部的贸易官员，也当过德累斯登银行（Dresdner Bank）的研究分析师，被委托进行台湾岛蓝筹知名品牌股票的业绩评估。
 
为了学业，他暂别台湾。他在纽约大学 （New York University）获得了 硕士学位，集中研究东亚的历史和政治，并发表了一篇关于台湾电影业的论文。之后 ，Andrew回到台湾，担任台湾主要英文报章---英文中国邮报（China Post）主编及其每周刊登的社论作者。
 
从2003年至2009年4月加入新世野网站团队前，他在北京担任新华财经（XFN-Asia）的编辑和记者。