Editor’s Note for Feb 7, 2022

Upcoming event on February 23: Join The China Project for a virtual screening of the Oscar-shortlisted film ASCENSION, a beautiful visual tale of the contemporary “Chinese Dream.”

Our annual Women’s Conference is coming together and we are currently accepting nominations for our 2022 Rising Star Awards. If you know a young female professional of extraordinary achievements, please be sure to nominate her.

Our word of the day is: If you open the window for fresh air, you have to expect some flies to blow in (打开窗户，新鲜空气会进来，苍蝇也会飞进来 dǎkāi chuānghù, xīnxiān kōngqì huì jìnlái, cāngyíng yě huì fēi jìnlái).

That’s what Dèng Xiǎopíng 邓小平 said about China opening up to foreign businesses and visitors in the 1980s, and it is the source of a recently published essay titled “Keeping the Flies Out” by veteran China entrepreneur Anne Stevenson-Yang.

—Jeremy Goldkorn, Editor-in-Chief