Peter Stelzer
Where are you from?
New York City.
How many kids do you have? A 4-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl.
What do you do in Beijing?
I teach history at Yew Chung Int’l School.
What did you do before? I was a legal director for an NGO.
What’s your style?
Middle-age funky.
Where do you like to go eat? Hatsune or Greek Delicacy.
How do you stay warm
during winter? Snuggle up to the person I love.
What’s the last book you read? The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. It’s about the 20th century development of Judaism and comic books.
Dan Baird
Where are you from?
Brisbane, Australia.
How many kids do you have? Two girls – ages 5 and 2.
What do you do in Beijing? I source equipment and
materials out of China.
How long have you been in Beijing? Five months. The culture shock has been huge. And it’s so cold!
What book are you reading right now? 1421 by Gavin Menzies – it’s about Chinese vessels that searched the globe.
How long do you think you’ll be here? As long as we can.
Sven Struck
Where are you from?
Germany.
Where do you live?
Changqing in Jilin. We often visit Beijing.
How many kids do you have? A baby boy who is four-and-a-half-weeks-old.
How long have you lived in China? One year.
Where do you work? At Volkswagen as a planning engineer.
Have you been shopping today? We went to Potato & Co and Mothercare in Solana.
What are you reading right now? Die elf Plagen, a thriller.
Will Liang
Where are you from?
Born and raised in Beijing, but I studied in New England in the US for three years.
How many kids do you have?
Two girls.
What do you do?
Business in the financial industry.
How would you describe your style?
Casual on the weekends and suit and tie stuff on workdays.
Will you enroll your kids in Chinese schools or international schools?
They’re in a bilingual kindergarten now. I want to wait until their Chinese is solid and then when they are 10 or 11 send them to boarding school in the UK or in the US. I want them to be bi-native, not just bicultural.
What will you do for the Chinese New Year?
Get together with the family – all of my relatives are here.
What was the last book you read?
Dreams of My Father by Barack Obama. I’m reading his next book now.
