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Posts by Noah Davidson

Aug. 13, 2010

East Meets West 2.0

In my last article, I suggested that Americans could do well to get to know our middle class counterparts in China and hinted that the next installment would be a hypothetical foray into what the conversation could look like, or…

Jun. 11, 2010

A Disclosure, a Confession, and First Things First: Part 2

This is the second part of Noah’s article on his experiences trying to understand the Chinese. You can read the first part here.   With a caveat then, to acknowledge some very real human rights abuses suffered by many, and…

Jun. 6, 2010

A Disclosure, a Confession, and First Things First.

As a disclosure, I am not totally new in China.  I have lived here before for a year in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, and then a second year in Beijing.  To be sure, there is enough grist in those two years…

May. 25, 2010

Sunrise in the New and Ancient East

As of two weeks ago today, I am living and working in the city of Xi’an in Shaan’xi Province in central China.  For those not familiar with Chinese geography, imagine a city whose location roughly mirrors that of Omaha, Nebraska…

Apr. 19, 2010

An Immodest Proposal

From the high ivory tower of the emerald city, about as far from the Caribbean as one can be on this continent, it’s patently easy to propose starry-eyed solutions to deeply entrenched socio-economic problems even while knowing nothing about one’s…