Honoured to Introduce
Derek Sandhaus
Co-Founder Ming River Sichuan Baijiu
Global Spirits Community
Global Chapter - Washington, D.C.
Derek Sandhaus is the award-winning author of Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking Culture and Baijiu: The Essential Guide to Chinese Spirits. In 2018 he co-founded Ming River Sichuan Baijiu in partnership with China’s oldest distillery. He serves as Ming River’s communications director and as the editor at DrinkBaijiu.com. He lives in Washington, D.C.
Expertise
Award-Winning Author
Chinese spirits
International Spirits
Editor & Publishing
Consultant
Experience
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Communication Director/ Co- Founder
Ming River Baijiu
2018-Present . 3 Years 5 Months -
Partner
Capital Spirits Ltd
2015-2018 . -
Chief Editor / General manager
Earnshaw Books
2009-2011 . 2 Years 6 Months -
Senior Account Executive / Editor
Hill+Knowlton Strategies
2008-2009 .
Academic details
University:
Brandeis University
Year:
2005
Books
Tales of Old Hong Kong: Treasures from the Fragrant Harbour
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Wild China Book Club: Drunk in China
Grab a Book, Pour a Glass: For Wild China’s June book club, we’ll be reading Drunk in China: Baijiu and the World’s Oldest Drinking Culture and chatting with the author, Ming River Baijiu founder, Derek Sandhaus. Hosted by Mei Zhang.
Pieces of China: Derek Sandhaus on Baijiu
An Online Video Series with the China Institute: For thousands of years, Chinese emperors, literati scholars, and great men of letters have waxed poetic about the pleasures of getting drunk. The distilled spirit known as “Baijiu,” 白酒,was developed by the Ming dynasty, but it was during the Communist era that this “working man’s drink” was…
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