"A Magic Life" starts in England then on to Germany and finishes in China up to the World Trade entry of China. The author learns to speak, read and write Russian and Chinese.
Then is offered a teaching job in Chinas top university, Beijing Remnin Daxue. This is stopped due to being over 60. Then the author is offered a job in a Medical College in Wuhan, China, which he does for 2 years.
Then the Chinese Government ask him and his Wife to be teachers at an experimental language school in Shenzhen, next to Hong Kong. They are there 6 years and during that period the author teaches at the Hua Wei Technical Institute, The Fujian bank and finally Shenzhen University.
The cultural impact of the East meeting the west is embedded in the story.