January 2014

Liz Carter is a PhD candidate in Chinese Linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was an Editor at Tea Leaf Nation, now a part of the Foreign Policy Group. Formerly a translator for China Digital Times, she helped co-author their new e-book, Grass-mud Horse Lexicon: Classical Netizen Language, and has written and translated a number of textbooks published by China’s Foreign Languages Press. Her articles have appeared in The Atlantic and Foreign Policy, and she has appeared on PRI’s The World, Al Jazeera, and HuffPost Live to speak about the latest developments in China.

Carter lived for a number of years in Beijing, China, where she worked for PR Newswire Asia and studied contemporary Chinese literature at Peking University.