Editor's note: We have asked expats living in China to share their stories about the cities they work and live in. Each morning on my way to school, I would travel past locals completing morning exercises along the seaside, and you could always rely on the "polar bear club" – the men who met on the beach across from the …
For Cameron Patterson, a young British scholar who spent his childhood in China, nothing more vividly attests to the country's rapid progress over the past decade than trains. Though his primary schoolteacher in his hometown of Cardiff was shocked by the decision of Patterson's father to bring the boy to China at such a young age, Patterson says few would …
