Expats In China Find The Success
China's new policy of openness and spectacular growth over the past three decades has led mass Westerners to make the leap to the Middle Kingdom. The total number of foreigners currently living in China has reached more than half a million in 2010. Expatriates can be seen in almost all provincial cities in China, Shanghai and Beijing course that hosts the most of them.
China Life for expats today is not as difficult as in recent years. The standard of living in major cities in China such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai is as pleasant as Western cities such as New York, London and Paris.
Some expats find confusing Chinese culture, most consider fascinating. Expatriates in China are mainly used in the information technology sector, education and finance.
1) David Marriott "China Bounder"
David Marriott cyberspace sparked a manhunt for several years, having created a blog where he posted entries boasting of its many and varied carnal encounters with women of Shanghai.
2) Select "Dashan" Rowswell
Dashan is the Chinese stage name adopted by Canadian Mark Henry Rowswell, who works as a freelance artist in China. Relatively unknown in the West, Dashan is perhaps the most famous Western personality in China's media industry. Dashan can speak English and Mandarin fluently. He also spoke Cantonese in Chinese consumer-based Advertising Ford in North America.
3) Richard Burger
Richard Burger is the author of the popular blog Peking Duck, which has been published since 2002. Burger has recently become an editor in the English edition recently published the Global Times, a Chinese newspaper, which has a reputation left content, nationalist.
4) Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is best known for his two books on China: River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze a Kiriyama Book Prize winner of his experiences in two years as a volunteer in the teaching of English peace in China, and Oracle Bones : a trip between past and present of China, a collection of newspaper articles he wrote while living in Beijing.
5) Dominic Johnson-Hill
Dominic Johnson-Hill is a UK ex-backpackers who now heads Plastered T-shirts, startup he founded in 2005, which is about $ 800,000 a year in sales. When Dominic arrived in China, he had little to his name - but the guy was able to hurry. A passionate love for China has attracted much media attention.
6) Mark Kitto
Mark Kitto, author of Chasing China (also known as "China Cuckoo"), made the leap intense Shanghai shopping chaos and innovative career as a magazine publisher in English, to run a coffee in a beautiful, but the town remote mountain. Kitto now leads a very different life in a mountain in a small village called Moganshan Chinese with his Chinese-born wife and two young children.
7) Cecilie Gamst Berg
based in Hong Kong Norwegian Cecilie Gamst Berg is the author Blonde Lotus, a book of memories female expatriates published in English and Norwegian in 2006.
8) Graham Earnshaw
Graham Earnshaw is a managing director and chief editor of China Economic Review and Earnshaw Books.
9) Chris Taylor
Chris Taylor, author of Lonely Planet China, Tibet, Japan and Cambodia in the 1990s, and the first resources in the Taipei Times editor, look back on this period in his first novel, the harvest season a Chemically fed cheeky parable of party travelers pushing things too far in the last tourism frontier - China.
10) Tom Carter
Travel photographer Tom Carter traveled for 2 years and 56,000 kilometers through 33 provinces of China, the first foreigner in the history of China to have done.
11) Rachel DeWoskin
Rachel DeWoskin past twenty years in China as a consultant, writer, and the unlikely star of a night of drama called "outer Babes in Beijing."
12) Edwin Maher
Edwin Maher is a New Zealand television journalist who now works for CCTV International in Beijing, China. In 2003, China Central Television has sought to expand its international CCTV to be more professional and accessible to Western audiences. Senior CCTV Jiang Heping approached Maher, already working in China with CCTV as vocal coach, to become one of the first western anchor for the renewed network.
13) Robert "Weird China" Hai Kong
Robert Kong Hai is an American who has accumulated the largest twitter (strange China) to anyone out in China. With 266,000 followers, it might just be a factor in public opinion on China.
The co-founder and regular contributor to The Beat China: Blogging How the East is playing, and China co-editor in 2008: comments and reviews for various newspapers and magazines such as Time, Newsweek a year of great importance he contributed and the nation.
14) Dominic Stevenson
In 1993, Dominic Stevenson left a comfortable life in Japan to visit China.
15) Paul Alan
Alan Paul is the author of Big in China, a memoir about raising three American children in Beijing and the likely success of the Chinese blues band, Woodie Alan. Paul wrote "The Expat Life" column for the Wall Street Journal online 2005- 2009. The National Society of Newspaper Columnists named 2008 online columnist of the year.
16) Alfredo Martinez
China may seem an unlikely destination for Alfredo Martinez 6-foot-2, 300 pounds Brooklyn native who spent 21 months in a federal prison in the United States to forge drawings Jean-Michel Basquiat. In August 2007, while living in China, Beijing police exploded in Martinez hotel room, which was filled with guns and bombs drawings, and demanded to know if he was a terrorist. Shortly after, the Communist secret police arrested Martinez, maintain indefinitely in a Beijing prison without trial or legal advice.
17) Chris Thrall
In 1995, the UK-born Royal Marine Chris Thrall came to Hong Kong to make his fortune.
18) Darren Russell (R.I.P.)
In 2004, Darren Russell, 35, went to China to teach English. Unfortunate if Darren is an excellent example lack of laws applicable from top to base of China.
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