Christine Velde, Researcher and Writer
A Cultural Somewhere-in-Between

Skilled interviewers are like stand-up comics and jazz musicians because they must improvise and be malleable in order to solicit trust and confidence. Whatever the interviewee needs them to be, they become that person.

Christine Velde developed her love of Asia and her interest in expatriate life while employed as a senior academic, undertaking consultancy work in Hong Kong and Shanghai, which eventually led her to write about the region. After she returned to Australia to work as a university lecturer in Adelaide, Christine could not let go of her dream of chronicling her expatriate experiences and pursuing a career as a writer.