On June 26, a one-hour documentary, "Long time no see, Wuhan," reached 14 million views and 150,000 reposts within two days on Chinese and overseas video platforms.
Before 2019, Oli Barrett had lived his first 21 years in a rural village in England, a place "with few opportunities around."
Before March 2015, Rafael Saavedra from Venezuela was living in the Dominican Republic looking for a job related to his major in hotel management, far away from home.
Colombian Fernando Munoz Bernal has been teaching foreign languages in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, since 2001.
Jerry Grey, a U.K.-born Australian, came to China in 2004 with many stereotypes and doubts about the country.
When American Cyrus Janssen made a "bold move"— deciding to give up a job offer by a company in his hometown in Florida and take up a job in Shanghai — upon his graduation at Florida State University in 2006, he did not expect to stay in China for 10 years and fall in love with the country.