A black Mercedes R320 pulls up in the muddy driveway, and out steps a tanned 71-year old. Gao Lin’s handshake is firm. His wide brown American-style cowboy hat betrays a more sober communist past. He was once a soldier during the Cultural Revolution, then a government cadre under the communist planned economy. Today he’s one of […]
Author Archives: Echo Wang
Echo Wang Jing is a journalist based in Shanghai. She works for the German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. She has written for Lonely Planet and has worked as a freelancer for other media such as Sixth Tone on topics such as tech, property markets and social development in China.