in those days, you couldn't read any book you like, and crime books were neutral ground, so I devoured them, and I really wanted to be a detective. But then the Berlin Wall fell, and the opportunities in front of me were endless. So, I ended up being an economist, which is actually quite like being a detective. The aim of the game is to collect as many pieces of raw information that you can, know exactly what they are, and then you're trying to put them together into the same coherent picture. And the more pieces you manage to fit, the more confident you get that you have the right story. It's not a precise science, it requires judgment, and I've been looking at China for more than two decades now. Fantastic. And Dini, what about you? So, my story is I spent 10 years as a financial journalist in China, first in Shanghai, and then in Beijing. And then when I wrapped up then, there I moved to the US and spent a couple of years writing a book about China's political economy, which is how (4/40)
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