Xiong Lei, China, is a senior journalist, author and translator. Formerly Executive Director of China Features, a syndicate with Xinhua News Agency providing text and photo essays about China to interested media clients around the world, she has been teaching journalism as a guest professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University, Tsinghua University and Renmin University of China since her retirement in 2006. She co-authored and translated a number of publication, including Portraits of Ordinary Chinese (Foreign Language Press, 1992), The Last Paradize (China Intercontinental Press, 2008), China Ink: Changing Face of Chinese Journalism (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008), and China Insight (Environmental Science Press, 2009), among others. She also serves as a Media Consultant with the Global Environmental Institute, a Beijing-based Chinese non-profit & non-governmental think tank.