Joe and I met 53 years ago in Montreal, which was still brimming with an extra measure of post-Expo-67 liveliness and glow. He hired me for a warm-weather project planting vegetables in parcels of unused land alongside a train track in the Point St. Charles low-income district.
Joe shares how his life evolved from just before that, with a dream and epiphany in the Canada’s Northwest Territories Territory, to over 30 years (1985-2016) living, marrying, teaching and working as an architect in China, arriving there during that society’s somewhat halcyon and transitional era. He was able to perceive the traditional China still quite visible, along with the new, modern economic miracle surfacing through the excitement, curiosity, openness, focus and hard work of the Chinese people.
Here are some themes of our conversation.
• In the Northwest Territories: a Spiritual Turning Point in the Life Path
• Falling in Love with China in the 80s: A Poetic Memory
• The Gift of Living Abroad: Becoming Bicultural and Bifocal
• Embracing Global Unity: Why the US & China Must Act Together
• Architectural Studies and the Dream: Embracing Responsibility
Joe has been writing on various subjects of interest over the last few years since returning to Canada and Montreal.
Access to 4 China-related articles by Joe Carter: HERE,
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