He found the city tough but was hooked on the possibilities of a society in transition.
He found living and working in Beijing tough but was hooked on the possibilities in filming a society in transition.
At this point, no one has quite figured out how a still-poor China will make the transition to a smaller society with a skewed demographic profile.
And while most others in his party, notably Mr Kohl, played down the task of integrating 17m people, who had lived for four decades under the dead hand of communism, into a modern entrepreneurial society, Mr Biedenkopf strode the state, declaring bluntly that the transition would be at least a decade long, very costly, and very painful indeed.
All these things do not go unnoticed, and people understand the need for an economic transition to put society on a more sustainable footing more than they ever have, in spite of efforts from some quarters to convince them otherwise.
Her new book, Iron Butterflies: Women Transforming Themselves and the World captures a powerful time of transition in our society, led primarily by women.
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But in contemporary society, we have trouble talking about the obvious: The transition from boy to man is a risky endeavor, and there can be a lot of collateral damage.
As part of the curriculum, the nurses destined for Germany have begun absorbing the tenets of German culture to ensure a smooth transition into Western society.
The most unstable mix possible is a dictatorship trying to transition to an open society.
So the sort of values that we would prefer to have in Egyptian society were really at risk in this transition.
What was lost in the transition between these two economic worldviews in the last 30 years was a recognition that business is embedded in society, a society ruled by laws that govern behavior and set long-term economic priorities and goals, often to the benefit of corporate America.
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