Life Learned Abroad: Lessons on Humanity from China

Life Learned Abroad: Lessons on Humanity from China is about how placing yourself in a new environment allows you to refresh your ideas about life’s fundamental issues. By way of his placement in China, and inspired by his experiences there, Brandon Ferdig shares the insights he gained on issues such as education, poverty and wealth, freedom, sex and relationships, and many more. In August 2010, Brandon Ferdig went to live in China. What is it really like in China? Through photographs and word, this book shows us—and that’s just the start. More than just observing, Ferdig participated in life there and found himself on stage, in homes sharing meals, up a mountain practicing martial arts, touring a factory, photographing a protest, going on a date… Then came the insight—about China, about his own country: the United States, about himself, and about humanity.