By Jeff J. Brown
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[dropcap] I [/dropcap] would like to apologize to friends and fans of China Rising Radio Sinoland.
My wife, daughter (on semester break from Beijing Normal University) and I went to Hainan, China for Chinese New Year. It is the southern most province, below Shenzhen. As soon as we arrived, I was immediately afflicted with a terrible allergy. I will never know what it was, a tree, flower, plant, grass or fungus, but I was laid low. It felt like someone was feeding me a narcotic and a narcotic buzz is not my thing. My brain and body were working at half speed. Lots of coughing and sleepless nights. I felt gutted and my energy was a fraction of its usual level.
We had paid for package deal, for the whole two weeks, in Qionghai, near Boao, which hosts the big annual Chinese confab with the world’s elites. The package was expensive, so, we couldn’t just pack up. In any case, my wife and daughter were also there to enjoy themselves. There wasn’t just me to think about.
Thinking a change of air might help, the last five days we went down to Sanya, on the southern tip of the island. It was a little better there. We got back to Shenzhen on Sunday and I immediately felt better. Now, I just have to get rid of mega sinus infection, sore throat and cough, which are residues of the allergy siege I was under in Hainan. Needless to say, I’m not going back to Hainan, as nice as it is.
I will now get back into my routine and be publishing articles and doing podcasts. Thank you for your patience.
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Why and How China works: With a Mirror to Our Own History
JEFF J. BROWN, Senior Editor & China Correspondent, Dispatch from Beijing
Jeff J. Brown is a geopolitical analyst, journalist, lecturer and the author of The China Trilogy. It consists of 44 Days Backpacking in China – The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in Its Looking Glass (2013); Punto Press released China Rising – Capitalist Roads, Socialist Destinations (2016); and for Badak Merah, Jeff authored China Is Communist, Dammit! – Dawn of the Red Dynasty (2017). As well, he published a textbook, Doctor WriteRead’s Treasure Trove to Great English (2015). He is also currently penning an historical fiction, Red Letters – The Diaries of Xi Jinping, to be published in late 2018. Jeff is a Senior Editor & China Correspondent for The Greanville Post, where he keeps a column, Dispatch from Beijing. He also writes a column for The Saker, called the Moscow-Beijing Express. Jeff interviews and podcasts on his own program, China Rising Radio Sinoland, which is also available on SoundCloud, YouTube, Stitcher Radio and iTunes.
In China, he has been a speaker at TEDx, the Bookworm and Capital M Literary Festivals, the Hutong, as well as being featured in an 18-part series of interviews on Radio Beijing AM774, with former BBC journalist, Bruce Connolly. He has guest lectured at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences and various international schools and universities.
Jeff can be reached at China Rising, je**@br***********.com, Facebook, Twitter and Wechat/Whatsapp: +86-13823544196.
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