Giraffes, Pandas and the Temple of Heaven: How Should China Live With the Rest of the World?

Wang Jing is a writer and cross-culture consultant based in Hamburg, Germany.

In November 2019, 67-year-old Johnny Erling retired from his job as a Beijing correspondent for German newspaper Die Welt and moved back to his hometown of Frankfurt. Several major German newspapers published articles commemorating his retirement, calling him a “Reporter's Reporter” ― there is perhaps no higher praise than that from your peers.