I quit my job at 29 and traveled solo. I didn't tell my parents until I'd finished my business plan.

Tech Insider : Travel, Travel, Business
Cassi Zheng running down a street in Italy.
Cassi Zheng

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I moved to Shanghai and made my mark on its restaurant scene. Now I'm bringing Chinese wine to New York.

Tech Insider : Business, Style
Camden Hauge at Egg restaurant in Shanghai, China.
Camden Hauge moved to Shanghai for a six-month job — and ended up launching a restaurant career.

Photographer Bess Friday

My parents didn't approve when I dropped out of high school. But it became the first step toward starting my own company in China.

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Christopher Zhang at CryoZone, a cryotherapy center in Shanghai, China.
Christopher Zhang had no interest in college, so he dropped out of high school and focused on his career in Shanghai.

Provided by Christopher Zhang

I moved to Shanghai from the Midwest 10 years ago. I struggle to relate to friends back home.

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Woman posing in window frame in China.
Sophie Steiner moved to Shanghai in 2015.

Sophie Steiner

I moved to China for 8 years. There were major differences in work culture to the West, but I highly recommend working in Asia.

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Left: Headshot of a white woman smiling, right: busy street in Shanghai, China
Sue Campbell (left) moved to Hong Kong and worked across China for eight years, mainly in Shanghai.

Nikada/Getty Images, Sue Campbell

Almost half of all major Chinese cities are sinking, study says

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Flooding in Zhuozhou city in China's Hebei province, August 9, 2023.

JADE GAO/AFP via Getty Images

China needs Apple even as it tries to push foreign firms out, economist says

Tech Insider : Economy
The Apple logo next to Chinese flags.
The Chinese national flag is displayed in front of an Apple store in Shanghai on October 9, 2021.

HECTOR RETAMAL

I moved to China expecting to teach for just 2 years. I've been here for nearly a decade and have no plans to move home.

Tech Insider : Travel, Travel
Aidan Fairhall, 34, has spent nearly a decade teaching in three international schools in China.
Aidan Fairhall, 34, has spent nearly a decade teaching in international schools in Guangzhou and Shanghai.

Aidan Fairhall

I'm a tech worker who moved from Brazil to China 3 years ago. I have a real love-hate relationship with the work culture here.

Tech Insider : Technology
Yuri Zanoni is a 33-year-old tech worker from Brazil, who spent the past three years working for Chinese tech companies Alibaba and ByteDance
Yuri Zanoni is a 33-year-old tech worker from Brazil, who has spent the past three years working for Chinese tech companies Alibaba and ByteDance

Yuri Zanoni

China arrested an executive and two former employees at a major US ad agency, claiming they accepted bribes, reports say

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Branding signage for WPP, the largest global advertising and public relations agency at their offices in London, Britain, July 17, 2019
GroupM is owned by WPP, the world's largest advertising agency.

REUTERS/Toby Melville

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