| About
the Author I've been involved with China since the early 1960's, when I began studying Chinese in high school in Massachusetts, where I grew up. As an undergraduate at Connecticut College, I majored in Russian and minored in Chinese and I continued my graduate studies in Chinese, earning an M.A. from Harvard University in 1968. My first trip to China was in 1977, shortly after the death of Mao Tse-tung and at the height of the televised trial of the Gang of Four. Since then, I've made over 100 trips to China. I live in San Francisco, California and have worked for a China investment advisory company since 1981. This business regularly takes me to China 4 - 5 times year. |
 Researching Beijing's "free markets" (June 1997). |
My recent interest in the farmer's market movement in the U.S, and particularly the thriving Ferry Plaza Market in San Francisco, led me to research a similar phenomenon in China known as "free markets". |
