An intimate, expository, and important account of an American living in China leading up to and during the Covid-19 outbreak, Thomas Ridgedell's observations gently rebuke the Western media narrative that China is a place where people live in absolute oppression and fear of their government.Ridgedell, a Ph.D., and a former American university instructor, taught History at a high school while living in Wuxi, a city outside of Shanghai, from 2018 to 2022. Across Cultures and Crisis is his thorough and accessible overview of the political and religious ideologies, social structures, and economic considerations, of one of the world's fastest developing countries and home to over a billion people...