Ten years of hands-on experience up and down the streets of the Arab World, 10 years of living and working with everyday Chinese, five years of business ownership in the heart of Western Europe, and nine years of entrepreneurship and eventually teaching in the USA, makes for a fascinating, multicultural, geopolitical writer's résumé. Follow Jeff as he reports from the belly of the New Century Beast - China - and how its history changing arc of development relates to the West. Read, laugh and learn... Jeff is the author of 44 Days Backpacking in China: The Middle Kingdom in the 21st Century, with the United States, Europe and the Fate of the World in its Looking Glass (2013, 44 Days Publishing, 44 Days).