James Mann is the founder and director of the Dongguan Dragons Baseball Club, bringing baseball to China for free with his non-profit program for kids of all ages to learn, practice and play the game. The Dongguan Dragons baseball club has become an official Little League chapter back in 2018. The program has over 300 kids, mostly Chinese kids, playing baseball every weekend.   

Jim is also an ex minor league player who played in several baseball leagues in Asia and a former race walker. He competed for the American national team for eight years before he started his career in shoes with Nike, which is the reason he moved to Asia at the end of the 80s.

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Tim Page is an Australian living in China. He had a long career as a video game developer, starting with the first Nintendo team in Australia back in the 80s, then EA Sports, then THQ. He moved to Shanghai in 2008 to live with his expat family in China in order to develop video games for THQ from Asia, and then moved into his second career in smart displays for SoundWedge, among other things.

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Lily Jiang is a modern Chinese young lady who went through an education path most Chinese youth could only dream about. She bypassed the "gaokao" (China's notorious National College Entrance Examination) by going to high-school and then university in the USA, and she also studied in Hong Kong and London. After graduation, she moved to Shanghai to start her career, then Spain, and soon she's starting a new job as a marketing manager at a start up in Germany. Is she the "new" Chinese?

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Jason (Komit is his online persona) Chen is a dance studio owner, bar owner (Muzika), English teacher, Chinese Visa agent, fashion model, actor, and the list goes on and on. In this conversation we discuss how China is not what people back home think, freedom in China and the West, taking his Chinese wife's last name, and much more.

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Billy Lam grew up in Hong Kong, studied in the U.S. and worked in a corporate job doing sales for IBM for eight years after graduating. His life took a 360 degree turn when the dot-com bubble burst, so he decided to do what he always loved--party. He moved to Beijing and became a co-owner and occasional DJ at the famous Suzie Wong nightclub. Today he's the business director of HERE! Media & Marketing and an avid vlogger on Douyin (Chinese TikTok) and other social media.

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Miguel Alves has been living in China since 2002. He opened his first restaurant in 2003 and since then opened about 10 more F&B establishments. In this episode we discuss the restaurant business in China extensively, as well as tell many China expat stories from the old days.

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Rachel Zhang started her career as a translator in a fashion company in Guangzhou years ago. Through taking designers and clients around to factories, she learned the business quickly and got promoted. After a few more jobs with other companies, in higher positions, her ability to learn fast made her a founding partner in a growing denim fashion company. Today, her company supply denim to many jeans brands around the world.

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Washington-Hangzhou-Chang'an. Mitchie Perrine is not an ordinary China expat. He moved here for a graphic design job, and still works as a designer at an American furniture company during the days, but at nights...he has become a legend with his bar Ziggy's in "small town" Chang'an, in south China.

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In this week's podcast episode we talk to Mr. Peleg Lewi, the Israeli Consul General to Guangzhou and the former Ambassador to Paraguay. In our interview we cover a wide range of topics such as his 26-year diplomatic journey, including his posts in Colombia, Hungary and Paraguay, China-Israel diplomatic and economic relations and much more.

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Born in France and moved to Hong Kong when he was 2-month-old, Ludovic had a lot to talk about in this week's full length podcast. In this podcast we discuss his father being a "serial expat," witnessing the UK-China HK handover in 1997, studying hospitality in Lausanne, working in F&B in the hotel industry in Maldives and Dubai, and much more.

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