As a journalist with the South China Morning Post in Beijing in the 1990s, I often wrote about workers, trade unions and labour conditions in China. It was also at this time that I met Han Dongfang, the formerly imprisoned labour activist who would go on to found China Labour Bulletin, a non-governmental labour rights organization based in Hong Kong, dedicated to supporting the workers’ movement in China.

In 2007, after a decade away from China, I returned to Hong Kong and joined CLB as the organization’s English-language website editor. I initially signed up for three years but ended up working at CLB for 14 years before my retirement as communications director in September 2021.

Initially, we had a very small team in place with a limited website output and no social media presence. But the organization steadily expanded, and, over the years, I have been privileged to work with many talented and dedicated writers, researchers and activists from mainland China, Hong Kong and abroad who created a vast array of material for the website and social media platforms in China and internationally.