Elaine Chan is a journalist and writer covering Asia and Greater China. She was the Shanghai bureau chief of Bloomberg News and has written and edited for the likes of the South China Morning Post and the Associated Press.
While growing up in her native Singapore, she also trained in Western art and painting. But realizing she’d never be a van Gogh, she decided to pursue journalism, which she believes is society’s conscience. She is also the co-author of the novel Two Sides of a Lie.