I’m Graham Webster, born in Wisconsin and raised in Colorado. I spend my time reading and writing about technology and politics in China and elsewhere as an academic, journalist, and blogger. I did my undergraduate work in journalism and international studies at Northwestern University and a master's in East Asian studies at Harvard University. Beginning in the fall of 2010, I will be a Ph.D. student in political science at the University of Washington in Seattle.

For a year from 2007 to 2008, I lived in Beijing as journalist, blogger, and consultant to the Natural Resources Defense Council. In 2006–2007 I was an editor at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. As an undergraduate, I worked at a variety of media organizations, ranging from a local television news station in Denver, Colorado, to a design and culture magazine in Tokyo, to a magazine about newspapers in New York City. A summary of my résumé is available on this site.

I’ve written or photographed content for many media outlets. Here’s a partial list: The Boston Globe, the San Jose Mercury News, Editor & Publisher, CNET, Art Asia Pacific, Change.org, WorldChanging.com, Urbane (Beijing), Tokion Japan, BUST, THEME, and Westword (Denver). My comments have appeared in reports by Bloomberg News and McClatchy Newspapers, and I have been a guest on The Michael Koolidge Show on News/Talk 1060 WRHL in suburban Chicago and Feedback on WNUR 89.3 FM Evanston/Chicago.

My name in Chinese is 魏光明. In Japanese I am グレアム・ウェブスター.

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