Paul Loong

Paul Loong was born in Hong Kong when it was a British Crown Colony. He grew up in a Chinese society with an overlay of British institutions. He completed secondary school in the Anglo-Chinese education system in Hong Kong, and is fluent in Chinese and English.

Loong went to Canada to further his studies. A graduate at the University of Toronto and Carleton University in Ottawa, he settled in Canada but visited his birthplace regularly.

Loong had a career in international journalism spanning more than three decades, most of it with The Canadian Press, the national news agency, where he was World Editor for 14 years. The articles he published during his career covered a wide variety of topics and appeared in the news media in Asia, Europe and North America.

He retired from journalism in 2012 and began teaching media literacy at Canadian colleges a few years later. He found time between semesters to collect his thoughts and write this book, Tea Before the Rain.