Me | 北歐四季透明筆記

Tsui-Shan Tu. Born in Taipei, graduated in Denmark, living in Finland since 2003.

Since I moved to Finland my career has been developing in two parallel directions at the same time. I have had numerous full-time working experience in cultural and educational institutes as planning officer and project manager, in which Finnish has been the working language. On the other hand, I continue my freelance writing career in cooperation with Taiwanese magazines, websites, and different media. At the moment, I work at Finnfacts and organised international media visits to Finland.

Through my books, magazine/website columns and blogs, I have been introducing and promoting Finnish lifestyle and design for over 10 years. If you have any proposals on co-operation, welcome to contact me: tsuishan.tu(a)gmail.com

HONOURS:

Below is the book promoting video made for my awarded book “Pure Finland”, produced by Chinatimes OpenBook Award and Leading Creatives production company. In this video, I talked about my observation on Finnish design and my motivation for writing this book.

Video language is Chinese.

* Won the First Prize of Idea Competition “My international home” organised by JCI Seinäjoki in the year 2010.

* My Chinese blog was recommended by Chinatimes’ Global Chinese blog award 2007 as one of the best in the category of “lifestyle and design”.

* Was invited to be one of the parenting bloggers on leading CommonWealth Parenting blog website

MY BOOKS:

1) Pure Finland (in traditional Chinese published in Taiwan in 2007, simplified Chinese 2009)

2) Finnish life, design, and creativity (in traditional Chinese published in Taiwan in 2007, simplified Chinese 2010 )

3) A Taiwanese parenting experience in Finland (in traditional Chinese published in Taiwan 2015, simplified Chinese on the way…)

COLUMN WRITER AND CONTRIBUTOR:

“Shopping Design”, “Chinatimes”, “Business Next”, “Nordic Window”, “Simple Life”, “the Big Issue”… on topics related to Finnish and Scandinavian design, culture, society, and life. During the year 2012 I have been freelancing a column on the topic of WDC Helsinki and creative scenes in Helsinki for the magazine “Shopping Design” in Taiwan.

BLOGGER

I have been publishing articles online since 2000. This blog was established in 2004 and recommended by Chinatimes’ Global Chinese blog award 2007 in the category of “lifestyle and design”. I just started another blog in English here, welcome to have a look! (The English blog has been on halt for quite a long time, but I should start it again sometime!)

TRANSLATOR AND INTERPRETOR:

I have helped to build the bridge between Finnish and Chinese companies by working as translators, interpreters to assist the communications between Chinese companies and Finnish public/private sectors.

OTHER CO-OPERATION EXAMPLES

PRESS TOUR OR REPORT

– Sibelius and Tuusula lake artist residences– press tour, an article in Chinese.

– Monthly co-operation with Taiwanese radio program News98 – love you 22 hours, as Finnish correspondent, reporting on events in Finland and Finnish culture. For example Helsinki Book Fair, Helsinki Travel Fair (Matkamessut), More recordings are coming (in Chinese)