In Tianhetan Park, Guiyang City, Guizhou (August 2007)

Welcome to Huolong Blog! I’m Chang Guohua (screen name: Huolong, 活龙). I live in Beijing, China.

I grew up in Shibazhan, a very small mountain town in Heilongjiang province, China. I worked in Harbin, capital city of Heilongjiang from February 2000 until late November 2002 when I came to Beijing, where I’ve worked ever since. All my work experience is in Chinese/English translation though my last job in Harbin, which lasted two years and two months, also involved plenty of website designing and online content management. Though I didn’t actually become a website designer or a programmer later, I did learn a lot about online presence in the cyberspace. That’s why I could set up my WordPress blogs on a U.S.-based shared hosting computer. I’d just guessed and bluffed my way through the whole process.

After I came to Beijing, I found another translating position with a small consultancy that specialized in delivering market research reports on the Chinese markets to European clients. Nine months later in July 2003, I started working for China Daily’s translation unit until August 2006 when I decided to work freelance, hoping that I could have more time for reading books and thinking about how I should continue professionally.

You can contact me at:

Chang[at]Guohua.Us (email)
guohua.chang[at]gmail.com (Gtalk)
cryl[at]msn.com (MSN)
22274348 (QQ).