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Tiffany Tan tells how an American guitar-strumming video game programmer reinvented his career in China.

After losing his job in the dot-com bust, video game programmer Joshua Dyer moved from the United States to Taiwan in 2002. Dyer, 40, a native of San Diego, California, decided to teach English in the city of Hsinchu to pay off college student loans and see the wider world.

Although he had researched teaching markets in Japan and South Korea, China became his main focus.