Scott Michael Faul is currently a PhD student at National Taiwan Normal University's Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation.  In 2012 he began freelance translation after spending a decade in Beijing, travelling across China as a private sector executive in agricultural development.  Now he is enjoying new found opportunities investigating Chinese language literary culture as a translation studies scholar. He has translated several literary works for Taipei Chinese Pen, articles in Taiwan Panorama, and an exhibition catalogue for the Taiwan Museum of History.