His work with hundreds of Chinese from Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia has given him an insight into the problems native Chinese speakers encounter when trying to write English.
Kalb started his journalism career in Washington, D.C., as a reporter for the Washington Evening Star. He was a CBS NEWS correspondent in Hong Kong, then joined TIME Magazine as Eastern Europe bureau chief, and later moved to Rome, New York and back to Hong Kong. He served as an editor in the Voice of America’s Hong Kong bureau from 2002 to 2007.
He has been lecturing on journalism at The University of Hong Kong since 2005, specializing in basic reporting and news writing, and his experience with the writing of students from all over East Asia led to his latest book, You Can Write Better English. He has also published a novel, Cleaning House, and speaks regularly on how and why the level of English in East Asia should be improved.
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