1. Find a champion. ?It?s very important to identify a Chinese senior scientist who is a good fit and is willing to look after you in the early days,? says Sarah Perrett, a principal investigator at the Chinese Academy of Sciences? Institute of Biophysics in Beijing. She has been working in China since 2000 and says her boss was a great help in the early days, when she had to navigate a whole new system in a foreign language. ?She gave me freedom to do science with limited [managerial] responsibilities,? Perrett says.
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