Dan Stein

Dan grew up in Long Island, New York. He moved to the Midwest for college at Washington University in St. Louis, where he first learned Mandarin. His ‘Journey To The West’ continued after graduation, beginning over a decade in China. This included teaching English in Shenzhen, working at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, studying in Nanjing at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and then eight years in Shanghai, where he worked in factory product operations for Apple. Dan returned to the US in 2021, migrating to Apple’s office in the San Francisco Bay Area. Now after twenty years, he’s finally heading home to the east coast. In addition to visiting dozens of places in Mainland China, Dan has traveled extensively throughout Asia, including to Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and North Korea. With years of working in tech and manufacturing, Dan has a keen interest in supply chain resilience and innovation, and what the China economic miracle of the last 40 years will look like for the next 40. At the same time, Dan is passionate about Chinese history, with everything from the Shang oracle bones and the Silk Road to the fall of the Qing and Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 Southern Tour. He’s especially enamored with the Shanghai cultural melting pot of the 1920s-40s, being surrounded for almost a decade by that period’s magnificent architecture.