'James' & Yu Ying (a.k.a., Caroline Yu) posing on the Bund.
At the age of 17 she began working for her first multi-national corporation, Minnesota's Hormel Meats. At the age of 20 she was working with Manhattan's Fultonex, a company with its headquarters on Wall Street and its Shanghai branch located on the intersection of the two most famous streets of China, Nanjing Road (Shanghai's premier shopping street) & Zhongshan Road (of the historical Bund buildings).
I met her at 'English Corner' one Sunday afternoon and she surprised not only me with her versatility in the English language, but she shocked the other Chinese present when she said she taught in a popular English language center, Kai'en. Of the three months I stayed in Shanghai, one of the more memorable moments is inviting Yu Ying to 'Cloud Nine', a stylish evening bar for an international business clientele located on the 87th floor of the Jin Mao skyscraper.