Open Letter to Friends and Family

Video footage sent to Michael Sylvester from inside China last week.  The photographer is searching for the end of the line for free masks in one Chinese city.  photo credit: unknown

"Dear Friends,

As February 2020 opens, more than a billion people are huddling in their homes, uncertain of their collective fate.  In walled off cities resulting from a general quarantine, the Chinese are being denied access to their greatest strength, each other.  And there is no timeline...

I started Sylvester, Xu & Associates 18 years ago on the idea that, in a rapidly developing country the rules 
would be more important, not less.  Some guidelines would be necessary to control the chaos.  And there
would be a need to teach all those lawyers.   

And as a general matter, when countries join the UN and sign all those environmental and human rights
treaties, all that new stuff becomes law.  In this case, it was China during a cultural and social revolution.

And as an academic of the law of those social changes, a third of my life passed from within Mainland China, trying to make as much sense of it as I could.  Then to share what I learn as we go.  So, I have been a kid in a candy store for a very long time.

Yet, after 15 years of 'living in a concrete box in the sky' as anyone who has ever lived in a high rise understands, it was time to experience nature again.  So, my wife and I are scouting documentary film locations for a series of nature films for Chinese children.

In the meantime, our civilisation is having a conversation with itself.  In response, Ella is opening our doors to assist in any way we can.  She has been running my business for a very long time and I trust her judgement as much as I do my own.  

She is the future.  Building China.  Supporting Civil Society.  Right now...

Michael Sylvester
4 February 2020
Sea of Cortez
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Sylvester & Associates
Seaview Building, Suite 17 A
Tai zi Road, Shekou, Nanshan Dist.,
518067  Shenzhen, P. R. CHINA

86 755 2686 7423 Office
86 755 2669 7170 Fax
86 138 235 19155 Mobile

www.sylvester-associates.com
michael@sylvester-associates.com

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