And despite all these obstacles, somehow the American ship captain's wife, Augusta Obear, was allowed into Guangzhou to accompany Afong Moy out of China. So all these irregularities really fascinated me.
So he's done the hustle. He was going down to the Guangzhou fair, the Canton fair. He was visiting Wenzhou, places like that.
In doing the research, I found that it was very likely that a terrible flood and famine in the southern part of China, which we know is then Canton and now as Guangzhou , would have affected trade and the activities in southern China. And this would have had an impact, as well coupled with the fact that two Western merchants were
It was illegal to learn English. It was illegal for a Western woman to come to Guangzhou . And despite all these obstacles, somehow the American ship captain's wife, Augusta Obear,
like many other people in that generation, was fleeing a war-torn country, right? So my parents were-- my dad is from Guangzhou , which is this this Southern China. If you speak Cantonese, it's that area.
But over here, you have the ability to coordinate what we want with what we can make. And the thing that allows the Port of Guangzhou to fire a shipping container full of Happy Meal toys at the Port of Los Angeles, one a second, 365 days a year, like a rail gun firing tchotchkes, is that's coordination.
And these days, sensitive terms are routinely blocked. A search in Chinese about a recent protest in Guangzhou against political censorship yields not much results. And in December last year, many of you know probably Sina Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter, enacted a seven-day delay function for sensitive terms.
very interested in and very ambitious to bring her to the United States. Probably, Afong Moy the daughter of a Guangzhou Cantonese Chinese merchant or a Chinese comprador. And a comprador is a person who served as an intermediary in a Western household providing household goods and intersecting
He had been an orphan struggling to make ends meet as a farmer on a tiny plot of land in southern China. Generations of Lees had farmed these rocky hills in Village right outside of Guangzhou , southern China. But by the early 1900s, Grandfather told me he was killing himself for nothing.
So that's how I operate. There are three halls in Shanghai, Guangzhou .
And it was like a dream for me because all of a sudden I'm having dinner with Kelsey, a woman from Bangkok working in Bangkok to address the issues there, a woman in Guangzhou to address the issues in China. And they're all talking about how to best support each other, how they deal with different situations.
Really, that's probably the nature of their journey. But from that room, now we have, as I said, from this three classrooms to about-- to we have three campus-- one in Beijing, in Guangzhou , and this is the second year for a school in Silicon Valley.
And the exceptions, as I mentioned, would have been a small Chinese merchant or a comprador, which would allow a merchant that opportunity to go-- the Western merchant-- to go to a Chinese person within a 12-acre radius around Canton, around Guangzhou . So it was illegal for Chinese people to leave China at the time.
But where we are seeing the bigger impact actually is in emerging markets. He's bought a football team, he admitted, when he was drunk, the Guangzhou Evergrande football team.