Forget Beijing and the 2008 Olympics. As Shanghai goes, so goes the rest of China. After she graduated from Stanford University this past spring, Katie Salisbury spent nine weeks in China’s most industrial and cosmopolitan city, studying its shopping malls and the people who inhabit them. For Salisbury, it was a fascinating, if somewhat pricey, experience.
Katie Salisbury graduated from Stanford University in the spring of 2007 with a degree in the humanities and a minor in Chinese language. She is currently finishing up a master’s in sociology at Stanford and keeps herself busy as one of the editors-in-chief of the Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs. She is a native Californian but often parts with the sunny climes she grew up in to travel the world and experience different cultures firsthand. Although she would probably never say as much, Katie secretly considers herself as a writer and, from time to time, finds herself encumbered with thoughts that only putting pen to paper can relieve.
