JohnG

John Guise is a Canadian who came to Shanghai on a whim after been laid off from his newspaper job in 2003. Four years later, he’s become pretty good at Mandarin and visited a lot of Chinese factories. He's currently a staff writer for a China-based business magazine. full profile »

Was the Inspiration for James Bond a Lost Laowai?

– Well maybe he wasn’t the only inspiration for British uberspy James Bond, but Peter Fleming certainly was one crazy laowai. Peter Fleming was the older brother of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming and one of the best known travel writers of 1930s England. A very rich adventure writer, the Flemings came from an important banking family … Read More »

A Man at the Center of Change in 19th Century China

– For all those Chinese parents looking to get their kids into Harvard or Yale, they should take their noses out of those how-to-books writen by parents of successful students and instead read the biography of one of their countrymen. Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America (China Economic Review Publishing) is the biography of … Read More »

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