Woolley: Don’t become ‘lao bai xing’

Woolley: Don’t become ‘lao bai xing’

I was born and raised in Aspen, in a town where people showed up. They showed up in cafes, on the slopes, to council meetings and to the stammtisch table at the Wienerstube to argue about housing, roundabouts and bike lanes. I assumed that was simply how communities worked. It took 10 years on the other side of the planet to understand how rare and fragile that really is. In my 20s, I moved to China. I’d studied public policy and Mandarin in col…