Erika R Alpert is a linguist and anthropologist who has written and taught about families and language in Japan, Kazakhstan, and the US. You can usually find her under a cat and baby pile in Chicago.

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Logan Wright is a partner at Rhodium Group and leads the firm's China Markets Research work. He is also a Senior Associate of the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for ...