Isabel Hilton is a London-based writer and broadcaster whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Guardian, the Independent, the Sunday Times, New York Times, El Pais, Granta and many others. She is the founder and editor of www.chinadialogue.net, the world’s first fully bilingual Chinese-English web publication on climate and environment, and of www.thethirdpole.net which reports on water in the Himalayan watershed.