Ann Scott Tyson, Return to China: One Reporter Finds a Nation That Has Gone from Bicycles to Bullet Trains; For a visiting journalist, the country of today feel worlds away from the China she first encountered decades earlier. Christian Science Monitor, Jan 21, 2018. https://www.csmonitor.com/World/ ... es-to-bullet-trains
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"By the time I left in 1992 [from 1983 as CSM reporter in China], China was a second home. I spoke and often dreamed in Chinese. In many respects, I knew China better than I did my own country [America].
"My trip [to China to see her son based in Shanghai] is coming to an end, and I feel an inexplicable sadness.
A Chinese reporter, a stranger, said to Tyson: " 'Don't cry,' he says. 'Don't cry for Beijing.'