This Q&A is part of the Chengdu Stories series of interviews with people living and working in Chengdu, telling stories of their lives in the Sichuan capital city. This interview is with Reed Riggs, Ph.D., Chinese instructor at Brigham Young University, Hawaii. Reed lived in Chengdu for five years, and …
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Read my interview with Aaron, developer of the nommoc app, designed to combat the phenomenon of expat illiteracy in China.