Ying was parachuted into Beijing with US$2,000 in travellers’ cheques in the late 1980s and grew the Beijing office into a 30-person operation focusing mostly on Magazine Publishing. From 2007 onwards she, along with her editorial colleagues, founded ACA, funding operations by selling her house. These days she can be found talking to her publishing friends from 5:30am onwards, trying to find our next bestseller.

Martin studied Chinese at Leeds University in the mid-1970s and went on to spend more than two decades in Hong Kong working in magazine publishing with Times Publishing Group and then Reed Elsevier, ultimately becoming their B2B Publishing Director. He first met Ying in Beijing in 1982 and their paths kept crossing thereafter, culminating in Martin joining ACA Publishing as Chief Editor in 2013 (having played a key role before then).

David worked in financial marketing in the 1980s before switching to the world of journalism. He was Southeast Asia correspondent at South magazine before becoming editor of China Economic Review in 1992 and, later, China Business Handbook, where he worked closely with Ying in developing the international reputation of these titles. After more than a decade there, he went on to edit a number of different China-related books and teamed up once again with Ying in 2014 to become senior fiction editor at ACA Publishing.