Michael Bristow

Asia Pacific Editor, Bbc World Service @BBC

Based in London, I help shape how the BBC reports events in East Asia. I edit, write and broadcast, on both radio and TV. I\'ve also written a book called China in Drag, Travels with a Cross-dresser. I wanted to write about the country’s modern history, and to do that I enlisted the help of my language teacher, who was born just two years after the communist party came to power in 1949. I chose him because the changing fortunes of his life have mirrored the ups and downs of his country. Oh, and along the way he revealed he was a cross-dresser.