Wade Shepard
Wade Shepard
Advisor
China’s urbanization, , Emerging markets, Storytelling
“The term ‘ghost cities’ is actually not appropriate. Ghost cities are places that once lived and then died. What I write about is new places that are underpopulated, and where houses are dark at night.”
Biography
I’m an itinerant writer who has been traveling the world since 1999, through 91 countries. I wrote Ghost Cities of China, a book which chronicles the two years that I spent in China’s new cities, and have another book about the New Silk Road coming out soon. I’m a regular contributor to Forbes, The Guardian, and the South China Morning Post, and I have been featured on BBC World, VICE, NPR Morning Edition, CNBC Squawk Box, CBC The Current.
Work
- Documentary Filmmaker in July 2019 to Present
- Forbes Contributing Writer in 2016 to Present
- Guardian News & Media, Features Writer in 2018 to 2019
- Zebooks author in 2013 to 2019
- Bloomberg Travel Writer in 2018 to 2019
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