Luz M. Sanchis

Name: Camila Country of Origin: Ecuador Occupation: Student Years in China: 2 years The experience of studying in China Two and a half years before, I wasn’t expecting to come to China and live all the experiences that I am living now. Exactly two years ago, I was in a 30-hour flight coming to China,

Name: Szabolcs Szajp Country of Origin: Hungary Occupation: Director of Hungarian Innovation and Technology Center Years in China: 13 The adventure is still on… Story written by Szabolcs Szajp My China story starts in 2007 in Hungary, where I was teaching international political economy at the Corvinus University of Budapest, and researching public economic policy issues in a think-tank. I was in a relationship for 4 years, I owned

Name: Carla Croman Country of Origin: Spain, Barcelona Occupation: Fashion designer  Years in China: 4 years  How did your journey in China begin? My story in China started when I got a job offer for a company in Guangzhou. I never thought of China as a place where I would like to live, I only considered it as a place

Name: Hanna Originally from: Seoul, Korea Years in China: 17 Occupation: Opera singer, vocal trainer, music and Korean language teacher How did your China journey begin? My first time in China was 18 years ago. I visited Xiamen as a tourist with my mum, my aunt and her daughters. Not many tourists came here at

Name: Raj Years in China: 21 Years Occupation: Interior Designer Country of Origin: Singapore, of 3rd Generation Singaporean Indian How did your journey in China begin? The first time I step foot on Chinese soil was in 1997 when I went to Beijing for a work trip regarding the design of a hotel there. Coming

Name: Jenny Liang Country of Origin： Philippines Occupation: HR & Training Supervisor for Sealand Maritime Service Co. Ltd. Years in China: 16 years and 1 month How did your journey in China begin? After my college graduation, I met up with my high school friend, Renelyn, who was at that time working as a foreign

Name: Biba Urška Originally from: Slovenia Years in China: almost 10 Occupation while in China: Student Biba’s unique China story, written by Biba Urska: My husband and I lived in Xiamen for almost ten years, but apart from colleagues or friends in groups involved in saving animals, we didn’t meet that many other foreigners. The

Name: Jennifer Gunter Originally from: Huntsville, Ontario, Canada Years in China: 4 Occupation: Teacher, department chair, college counselor and voleyball coach! Written by: Jennifer Gunter When I tell many people that I live in China, they ask me questions about crowds, traffic, and other problems that they’ve heard exist in China.  I’ve been living internationally

Name: Alonso Quijano Originally from: Ecuador Occupation: Economist / Ocarina musician Years in China: 5 How did your China journey begin? My journey began in 2011 when I started studying at the Confucius Institute of Ecuador. I fell in love with the language right away and committed to studying Mandarin Chinese until I could speak

Name: Graham Faulkner Originally from: The United Kingdom Occupation: Translator Years in China: 18 People often ask me why I came to China. To be honest, I’ve never really had a quick and ready answer to that question, other than simply saying that I was curious. I didn’t know much about China before I arrived