Kaiser Kuo

China Bureau Chief, Red Herring magazine

Kaiser has been a business and technology journalist since 2002, contributing to publications including Time, Time Asia, China Economic Review,Telecom Asia, Asia Inc, and Asia Computer Weekly before joining Red Herring as China bureau chief. Previously, he was English editor-in-chief of Internet startup ChinaNow.com and Creative Director for wireless value-added service provider Linktone. Kaiser came to China after graduating in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded China's first heavy metal band, Tang Dynasty, in 1989, and after a stint in graduate school at the University of Arizona, where he received an MA in East Asian Studies focusing on modern Chinese intellectual history, he returned to the band from 1996 to 1999. He remains active in the Beijing music scene, as guitarist of original Mandarin metal band Chunqiu and bassist of AC/DC tribute band The Dirty Deeds. He lives in Beijing with his wife Fanfan, two-year-old daughter Guenevere, and five-month-old son Johnny.