Johan Nylander
China correspondent | award-winning author | public speaker

Johan Nylander is an award-winning author and freelancing China and Asia correspondent. He’s published by CNN, Forbes, Sweden’s leading business daily Dagens Industri, etcetera.   

NEW BOOK: "THE EPIC SPLIT – Why 'Made in China' is going out of style"  - No 1 new releases Asia Politics (Kindle, Amazon)

Also author of bestseller " Shenzhen Superstars – How China's smartest city is challenging Silicon Valley".

Mr Nylander frequently gives speeches about business and political trends in China and Asia. He’s been speaking at events for international banks and consumer brands, such as JP Morgan and Calvin Klein, as well as the European and American Chambers of Commerce, Asia Society, the Rotary Club, etc. 
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Follow on Twitter @johannylander or connect on LinkedIn.  

​• CNN: Hard times for 'betel nut beauties' as Taiwan tries to kick deadly addiction (September 6, 2016)

CNN: Posh pods: Inside Tokyo's swankiest capsule hotels (August 24, 2016)

CNN: Could Taiwan be first in Asia with same-sex marriage? (July 4, 2016)

CNN: Sex trade goes underground in China's 'sin city' (May 26, 2015)

• CNN: Chinese 'ghost mall' back from the dead? (April 29, 2015)

• CNN:  Nightclubs for literature? Why book selling is booming in Taiwan (November 24, 2014)

• Nikkei Asian Review:  Smart cities seen as hotbeds for dirty deals (November 23, 2014)

• CNN: Taiwan president will deal with China but not at expense of sovereignty -- Interview with President Ma Ying-jeou (November 4, 2014)

• South China Morning Post, (Post Mag): Chinese professor blasts declining Swedish school system (July 2014)

• CNN: Dubious shrinks, political prisoners inside China's mental health care system (May 6, 2014)

• South China Morning Post, (Post Mag): A fight to the Finnish: a Chinese politician in Helsinki  (May 4, 2014)

• CNN: Inside China's booming used car market (April 25, 2014)

• CNN: How to buy your first serious piece of Chinese art (April 10, 2014)

• South China Morning Post, (Post Mag): City scope: Driven to abstraction (March 30, 2014)

• CNN: The rise of alternative education in China (March 27, 2015)

• The Diplomat: The Westerners Who Love North Korea (February 25, 2014)

• Al Jazeera: Stubbing out Mao's smoky legacy (February 09, 2014)

• Week in China: An understated approach (February 28, 2014)

• CNN: China's pirates turn their backs on wearable tech (January 16, 2014)

• Badischen Zeitung:
Chinesische Raubkopien sind ein Qualitätsmerkmal für das Original (March 4, 2014)

• Al Jazeera: China's love for copycat architecture (January, 2014)

• CNN: Chinese fakes cash in on Dr. Dre's Beats headphones bonanza (October 14, 2013)

• CNN: The photos North Korea didn't want you to see (October 22, 2013)

• CNN: Westerners race into North Korea -- by bike (September 26, 2013)

• CNN: World's biggest mall a China 'ghost town' (March 10, 2013)

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All updates at my Forbes blog:

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"THE EPIC SPLIT – Why 'Made in China' is going out of style"

From the readers:
• “I’ve been waiting for somebody to write this book for years.”
• “Nylander does a superb job of unpacking the state of decoupling between US and China”
​• “Essential reading.”​

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Shenzhen Superstars
- Amazon bestseller

“I like the journalistic quality.”
- Asia Times
 
“Short, sharp and to the point.”
- South China Morning Post
 
“As entertaining as it is informative.”
– The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
 
“Johan Nylander is very professional, very knowledgeable about Shenzhen”
- Naomi Wu, a.k.a Sexy Cyborg. Shenzhen hacker and cyber icon

Contact me for speeches 

“We could have gone on for hours.”
– BT Group (British Telecom)
 
“Inspiring and professional.”
– Sweden China Trade Council
 
“A wake up call!”
– Jacobsgaard Investment Advisory

Dubai TV. Interview about politics and human rights in China. (November 2015)

Live stock market TV reporting

Expert commentator on North Korea for Swedish TV