Being Taiwanese in China has its.... downsides. Good thing I was semi-fluent in Malaysian Hokkien, haha.
My parents were in Shanghai full time between 2000 and 2010 since my father worked there. That's where I went summer and winter breaks from 2001 through 2007. After graduating in 2007, I lived in Shanghai full time for a year and worked with my parents. Sometime between 2005 and 2006, my mother's good friends were transferred to Suzhou, China for a couple of years - hence our frequent trips there. Parents closed their plant in 2010 when the new labor laws became all sorts of troublesome for foreigner-owned businesses, including but not limited to said laws being altered almost on a yearly basis.
I was back in Shanghai last year. It's changed, again...
*grinds teeth and curbs need to rant*....
Glad you made so many good memories though because one day, China might do something crazy like the 3-stooges dam incident again (I call it that for a reason) and your pictures are the only evidence anything existed =).
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Date: 2013-09-30 11:43 pm (UTC)My parents were in Shanghai full time between 2000 and 2010 since my father worked there. That's where I went summer and winter breaks from 2001 through 2007. After graduating in 2007, I lived in Shanghai full time for a year and worked with my parents. Sometime between 2005 and 2006, my mother's good friends were transferred to Suzhou, China for a couple of years - hence our frequent trips there. Parents closed their plant in 2010 when the new labor laws became all sorts of troublesome for foreigner-owned businesses, including but not limited to said laws being altered almost on a yearly basis.
I was back in Shanghai last year. It's changed, again...
*grinds teeth and curbs need to rant*....
Glad you made so many good memories though because one day, China might do something crazy like the 3-stooges dam incident again (I call it that for a reason) and your pictures are the only evidence anything existed =).