My trip to China last summer has taken me through two very different perspectives – one of the old and struggling China in the rural villages, where many people live on less than $1 per day, and the other of the economically-booming China on its way to global integration through hosting the 29th Olympic games in the capital of Beijing. These are the two Chinas that I have grown up with and in which I have witnessed the vast transformation of a closed Communist society into a world power.
At the beginning of my trip, I participated in the two-and-a-half-week summer volunteer program of th…
