If You Won’t Go into the Tiger’s Lair, How Can You Catch The Cubs? HAN DYNASTY PROVERB, 202 B.C. - A.D. 220: “NOTHING VENTURED NOTHING GAINED.” As I wait for my connecting flight beneath the towering canopy of Dubai International Airport I welcome you to my Beijing blog, “He Who Dares”. Accompanied by an overpriced bottle of imported beer and the back of my boarding pass, I begin what I hope will be an honest and entertaining account of my pathway to China. Throughout the past six months family and friends have raised questions concerning my career path upon graduation, “Where and what next?”, they would ask candidly. My standard answer would begin by referring to arduous and lengthy graduate scheme applications within the banking and finance sector followed by, “the application process is very competitive,
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