Sahr Johnny was born in London on 1st May 1970 and attended the prestigious London School of Economics & Political Science. In 1993, armed with a degree in Economics, and a keen sense of adventure, he found himself in Hong Kong, where he spent three years as a personal assistant to one of Chinas first self-made tycoons before embarking on a career as a technology journalist covering consumer and business technology for major publications in Hong Kong, including The South China Morning Post, PC World, and The Economist Group’s Chief Financial Officer Asia magazine.

He has written for numerous Asian publications, including The Dataphile, Wireless World and Thats Beijing. In 1999, he founded Information Age, a Hong Kong-based Internet start-up that was later acquired by China.com, the first Chinese Internet company to list on NASDAQ. He has traveled extensively in Asia and spent part of his childhood living in Sierra Leone, West Africa. He is proficient in Mandarin and Cantonese and splits his time between Beijing, Hong Kong and London. SHANGHAI DREAM is his first work of fiction.