A Proud Canadian in China
John Guise is a Canadian who came to Shanghai on a whim — and for a girl — after been laid off from his newspaper job in August of 2003. Almost nine years later and he’s no longer with the girl (she moved to Japan and he found love and marriage with someone who turned out to be the perfect girl) but he’s has become pretty good at Mandarin, seen a large portion of the country — including a lot of factories — and spent time working at an advertising/trade media company as a copywriter for the workshops of the world (IE Chinese exporters) based in Northern China. He also worked in media and communications. He's currently based in Shanghai and working for a