Tina Kanagaratnam is a co-founder of Historic Shanghai, established in 1998 with the goal of raising awareness of Shanghai’s unique history through research, city walks, and events.
She is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles on Shanghai, her home for the past 28 years. Her work includes in-depth guidebooks (Insight Guides, Luxe Guides), books on architectural history (Hudec, among others), restaurant guides (Zagat and others), and Shanghai city walks books.
In 2003, she co-founded the Shanghai International Literary Festival, and later, the Capital Literary Festival, which she managed for over a decade. The festivals attracted an international roster of world-famous writers and were one of the region’s major literary events for over a decade.
Kanagaratnam holds a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University, and is a principal of PR agency AsiaMedia. A native of Singapore raised in Washington, D.C., she has lived in China since 1995, and Shanghai since 1997.
