Andrew Shaw

Andrew Shaw is former BBC reporter who gave it all up to travel to China to study the craft of jade carving. He has become a gold medal winning master carver and now lives with his wife in the city of Suzhou where they run a tea house and jade gallery. Andrew has a a unique style which mixes traditional Chinese ideas with modern Western designs. He is the only foreigner living and working as a jade carver in the middle kingdom and has gained a certain amount of fame as a result. Documentaries and TV programs are often made about him. He has collected a wealth of information about the modern jade industry unmatched in the Western world. There are a lot of people who know about ancient jades collecting dust in museums but no-one in the West knows more about the huge modern jade industry in China than he does. For more information On his Website https://www.jadefiend.com On his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/andrew.j.shaw.9 On his Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvkAVYf2eyzlGdvcN6vho7A?view_as=subscriber