Simon Elegant

SIMON ELEGANT is an award winning journalist, novelist and screenwriter. He was Bureau Chief in South East Asia and China for TIME magazine, as well as an editor and correspondent for the late, lamented Far Eastern Economic Review. He has written two novels: A CHINESE WEDDING, about an American woman who marries into a Hong Kong family; and A FLOATING LIFE, about the great Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, which was described by the New York Times as "“summoning up the man and his age in ways that are both deliciously foreign and all too familiar.”

Elegant is also a founding partner of the acclaimed Temple Restaurant Beijing.