As I taxi down the Beijing runway on the way to San Francisco, I have mixed feelings about if I will return to China. I am not sure. I have found China a fascinating place; it is a place of contradictions. I am okay contradictions but in China, the constant contradictions are near exhausting.
Let me explain.
The culture of China is incredible. I have read a little about her history, seen my share of Chinese movies and now have had a good snapshot of the real China. Millennia of cultural development, global trade and innovation has shaped her and the richness of the history is obvious. China is clearly a key figure in the global economy now and will be moreso into the future.
As we traveled through southern,central and northern China, we saw rich bedside poor, communism and capitalism working alongside, beautiful scenery and environmental practices that shocked us, innovative agriculture which make us feel like amateurs and practices which are centuries old, westernism seems to be the measure of success, while one street back off the westernized shopping areas, you enter a Chinese timewarp and have classic street markets selling live snakes, frogs and turtles destined for tonight's dinner.
There are people everywhere and everyone seems anonymous.
Perhaps I have over thought this, perhaps i should have just taken it all at face value but the nature of Nuffield is about testing you'r world view with what you see.
China is an amazing country, it is a land of opportunity for those
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