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Quinny Chan

Quinny Chan is associate director at Michael Page Hong Kong.

What job could I do with fluent Putonghua skills?

As an American who has been working in Hong Kong for nearly 10 years, I’ve long been fascinated by Chinese culture and even started Mandarin lessons a year ago. I’ve reached a point where I am deciding whether to keep doing it as a hobby, or really dive into learning the language with an aim to it being a part of my professional life in the next couple of years. What sort of jobs could a non-Cantonese-speaking Westerner who speaks fluent Mandarin do in Hong Kong? ...