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Month: September 2011

Looking Back, Part 1

September 29, 2011October 27, 2017

In this 2007 interview, a western banker shares his experience of arriving in South Korea the day after Park Chung-hee was shot and doing business in the police state of that time.

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Finding Contentment in Mainland China

September 16, 2011October 8, 2017

This is a July 2011 interview with a Canadian in his mid-fifties who is now teaching English in the People’s Republic of China after teaching for a while in Taipei. He discusses the surprises he discovered, touches a bit on working conditions in both places and explains why he is more content in China than he was back in Canada.

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Last Days in China, Part 2

September 2, 2011October 8, 2017

In this account, Harriet Adams, then a student at the international center at Nanjing University, describes her experience of the 1989 pro-democracy events in China.

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