"Here Comes Cao Cao"

"Today, it's not so much that foreigners are regarded as bad—on the contrary, many are heartily welcomed and at least outwardly respected as harbingers of economic success. But they are decidedly other. As workers and students from around the world take advantage of relatively lenient visa policies—more than half a million lived here in 2007—there is an acute sense of who is foreign, and who is not."

In the Los Angeles Times, Megan K. Stack profiles Jonathan Kos-Read, a white American actor in China.