Looking Back, Part 1
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.
Month: September 2011
Finding Contentment in Mainland China
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.
Last Days in China, Part 2
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.