Imagine this: You’ve just finished a long day of hiking through the karst hills of Guilin, China and are famished. You come upon a small, family-run food stall, complete with four plastic folding tables, two woks on a gas burner stove, and about a half dozen healthy adult chickens running around the premises. A young [...]
Way back in 1984, amidst the triple threat of Cold War “Commies,” nuclear weapons and lingering unemployment, Hollywood alchemized national fears with the propagandistic blockbuster film, “Red Dawn.” Part action thriller, part coming-of-age story, Red Dawn depicts a surprise Russian-Cuban invasion that would drown the American midwest in its own children’s blood if it were not for a few teenagers-turned-guerrilla fighters (Patrick Swayze and [...]
Nearly a year ago, I launched this blog as a way to organize some of my thoughts on the US-China relationship in an effort to find clarity on issues that I’d started to consider while living in China and during graduate school in New York City. I did not expect more than a few readers to drop by, nor [...]
Saul Gitlin (冀碩臨)- Executive Vice-President of top rated Asia-focused multicultural advertising agency Kang & Lee, founder of a popular LinkedIn group for Chinese-speaking professionals, mentor to budding Sinophiles, gifted storyteller and a scholar in his own right- is approaching thirty years of connection to China. I sat down with Mr. Gitlin, who is currently working [...]
In an age of “experts” we often find that few individuals have the proven experience to live up to the title once you scratch the surface- especially when it comes to China. Saul Gitlin (冀碩臨)- Executive Vice-President of top rated Asia-focused multicultural advertising agency Kang & Lee, founder of a popular LinkedIn group for Chinese-speaking [...]
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