Photo: Anne Li

After prepping at Andover, I studied ancient history at the University of Chicago.  My interest in China stems from reading the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (the English translation), one of China’s major historic novels, at age fourteen.  I grew up in Brimfield, Massachusetts, and the Boston area (Somerville, Cambridge, and Arlington), but have lived in Dushanbe, Berlin, Taipei, Hong Kong, Hangzhou, Chengdu and Beijing. In Beijing since May 2005, I have worked as a business consultant, freelance writer, photographer, stylist, and magazine editor.  Well, most of the time – over three years – I was consulting at Kamsky Associates Inc., developing market entry strategies for US corporations and financial groups in the magazine publishing, aviation, packaging, steel, packaging and copyright protection industries.

Since March 2009, I have been Editor-in-Chief of LifeStyle Magazine, China’s leading bilingual publication focusing on architecture, inner space, decor, luxury goods, travel, and other LifeStyle subjects. The magazine is distributed in all of the five-star hotels in the country as well as at golf courses, membership clubs, restaurants, etc. As you can probably can tell from the website, much work needs to be done to transform this into a world-class publication.  I am focusing now on the print side before developing the online presence.

Contact Information

Email:  nels [at] stylites [dot] net.

MSN: nels_frye [at] hotmail [dot] com

Phone: [one] 391009241 [zero].

My Published Writings
(this is an incomplete list that will be updated soon)

LifeStyle Magazine

Editor’s Note: “Red Ages Well” – October 2009

Earlier pieces will be added from LifeStyle soon!  Please contact me to request for hard copies of the magazine.

China International Business:

“A Cut Above” – April 2008
“Keep your Cool” – June 2008
“Befuddling Business Casual” – August 2008
“Black Tie, Carte Blanche” – November 2008”
Coat Couture” – December 2008
“The Color Code” – January 2009
“Tough Times in Tie City” – February 2009
Watching your Style” – April 2009
“A Link to Old Traditions” – May 2009
“A Day on the Green” – July 2009
“A Pocketful of Style“ - August 2009
“The Women’s Business Suit“ - September 2009 (with Fu Yuanyuan)

Modern Weekly:

Column: “Stylist in Beijing” (Weekly, April 2009 – present)

The Beijinger:

Column: “Trouser Press” (Monthly, April 2007- October 2008)

Feature: “Stylites” (Monthly, June 2007- February 2009)