For China too, seeing is believing

Having been in contact with China on and off for over 20 years, I have witnessed the transformation and changes that have taken place here.

When I first arrived in 1986, the area at the Third Ring road in Beijing where my language school was located was still a village with pigs running around in the street.

There was an old lady who used to sell very greasy but delicious xianbing, Chinese fried pancakes, in front of our school entrance.