寻乡中国：林登的故事

"Looking for Hometown in China" is the memoir of Brian Lyndon's 35 years of living in China. This is an American "Chinese Dream" story. The author details how China has changed his life over the past 30 years, and vividly demonstrates his personal exploration, cognition, integration process and emotional changes in China. During the 30 years of his association with China, Linden and his family have witnessed China's development. In 1984, Linden attended night school while cleaning carpets in Chicago, USA. By chance, he won a Chinese government scholarship, came to China to study, and experienced China's reform and opening up in the 1980s. During his stay in Beijing, he studied Chinese, starred in films, became a photojournalist, entered the Nanjing University Johns Hopkins Research Center for graduate study and met his wife. This valuable experience enabled him to become a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. status to return to the United States. In 2004, he returned to China with his wife and two young sons, took root in Xizhou, Yunnan, and devoted himself to the protection and restoration of China's (national) material cultural heritage, creating the "Xilinyuan" hotel brand. Linden participated in the excavation and development of the inner texture of the Chinese countryside, and became an international education practitioner, linking China and the world, so that more foreigners and Chinese can have a deeper understanding of the real China.