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Sociology has long been a marginal and unpopular subject in Chinese education, possibly due to low graduate employment. Richard Driscoll, a sociology teacher from England, however, sees a different picture in Shenzhen.
Audrey Tounier is a down-to-earth, easygoing woman who happens to be an aroma-therapist, living and practicing in Shekou in Shenzhen’s Nanshan District.
As Shenzhen is enhancing its educational system by incorporating more expatriate employees with international perspectives, three foreign vice principals have been employed at several local schools in Nanshan District. Taraneh Afnan-Holmes is one of the three principals.
Ronny Verdoodt walked into a downtown café on a sunny morning last week wearing a white polo shirt with “A Heart for China” printed on it and the word “Belgium” printed on his cap. The words on his clothing represent Verdoodt surprisingly well.
In a coffee shop in Nanshan District, Marco Loglio takes a model car out of his handbag and puts a sample solar panel on the model car’s roof. It’s a simple demonstration of an idea Loglio believes may shape the future of electric vehicles (EVs).
Mary Summers, who comes from Russia, started her modelling career at the end of last year. Before walking on the runway in Shenzhen, she had an internship as a magazine writer in Beijing.
Charles Kieffer, originally from the United States, is trying to make his classes interesting and useful to the students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shenzhen, in Longgang District.
Metro lines connect different times and spaces in Shenzhen, said Mary Ann O’Donnell, an American anthropologist who came to Shenzhen 20 years ago. O’Donnell has been busy making a Metro wikipedia, which will be displayed in 63 stations on three Metro lines (Line 7, 9 and the future Line 11).
Angelo Caroppo, a 55-year-old Italian, is passionate about food and also the owner of the newly relaunched Angelo Mediterranean Sun at the center of Futian CBD.
Chinese Frenchwoman Helen Zeng likes to talk to her customers when making crepes at her restaurant in Coco Park, Futian District. The topics are wide-ranging: from food and fashion to cosmetics and yachts.
Shenzhen is not a Chinese city, according to Park Eun-kyun. “Shenzhen is more like a rising international metropolis, like New York or Tokyo. It’s so different from historical cities like Beijing and Shanghai,” said Park.
Gurtej Singh, an Indian in Shenzhen, is dedicated to providing Indian cuisine in the city. Singh is the owner of Eden’s Indian Cuisine in the Xiangmuhu neighborhood.
Szabolcs Szajp is getting used to working for three companies at the same time, even though it means irregular work hours and countless business trips.
Sander Kole, 21, astonishes people with his perfect Mandarin though his Caucasian appearance shows that he is a foreigner in Shenzhen.
With a DJ on stage and extremely loud electronic music in the background, a crowd waved and danced at a music festival held at Bao’an Stadium on National Day.
Niklas Frisk, a 27-year-old Swedish jewelry designer, came to Shenzhen to realize his dream.
THE vice manager of the Futian Shangri-La Hotel, Rudolf Gimmi, attended a signing ceremony for an annual charity event the hotel sponsors called Ride for Hope. Gimmi said the charity was a great way to raise money for remote villages in China.
After seeing six patients on his first workday in Shenzhen, Dr. Sudipta Das said the language barrier wasn’t a problem. A Chinese doctor was translating for Das, an Indian optometrist, who arrived in Shenzhen about two week ago.
Along with being an Olympic champion, Fang Xingyue is also a professional pastry chef, known for her soufflé.
