Samuel Porteous is an award-winning Shanghai-based artist/author with close to 20 years of experience living and working in China. For the last ten years he has been Chief Creative Director of Drowsy Emperor; a small boutique design/content studio serving Chinese and Western audiences. Samuel's work focuses on the special place China holds in the Western imagination. His China analysis drawing on his earlier career as top China based corporate investigator and intelligence analyst has been published in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Globe and Mail, and Hong Kong Standard among others. He is currently artist in residence at TanYuan Gardens. Samuel also wrote and illustrated the graphic novel series Constable Khang's Mysteries of Old Shanghai for the China market which will soon be released in North America.
