Greg Girard is a professional photographer who has made Shanghai his home for the past nine years. I first met Greg in 1999. In 2000, Greg and I were both photographing the city in flux, documenting the rapid changes as the old city built during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was being bulldozed to make way for the new city of the 21st century.
Read MoreSex in China: The Times They Are a Changin'
I was thinking about interviewing my colleague James Farrer about this recent conference held in Beijing on sexuality in China, but Devin beat me to the punch. This interview is jacked from Devin's excellent website on global policy innovations:
Read MoreAn Interview with Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is a best-selling author and journalist. He has published two books of non-fiction on China, _River Town_ and _Oracle Bones_. He has also written feature articles on China for _the New Yorker_, _National Geographic_ and other magazines. Last November I met Peter in Beijing while he was researching an article on my friend David Spindler and his Great Wall project. This article was published in the May 21 2007 issue of _the New Yorker_ magazine. After meeting Peter, I was inspired to read his book _River Town_, which recounts his experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer and English teacher in Fuling in 1996-7. I found the book to be an honest, perceptive, and insightful account of what it's like to live in China as a foreigner.
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