Slide Over, Auntie: Young Chinese Find Tasty Meals in Senior Canteens
The community canteens, offering huge plates for a dollar or two, have become popular among penny-pinching young professionals.
By Alexandra Stevenson
I report on China and what it means to be the world’s second-largest economy with nearly one fifth of the world’s population. China’s economic rise has powered global growth; its stumbles shake the world’s financial markets. I have been named The Times’s chief correspondent in Shanghai, but I am currently based in Hong Kong awaiting a visa.
I’ve been covering China for more than a decade, and I studied and lived there for several years. It’s where I got my start in journalism, in 2008, writing about the Olympics in Beijing.
I joined The Times in 2013 in New York, where I covered the world of high finance and its darker corners, following the money trail of billionaires from the markets to politics and beyond.
Before that I covered financial markets and business at The Financial Times in New Delhi and London. I was born in the United States, and I grew up in Thailand and Canada. I got my bachelor’s degree in political science at McGill University in Montreal.
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