A new land of opportunity?

• Position: CHINA - Brief article

Cities Like Shanghai and Beijing are becoming magnets for recent American college graduates. The tough U.S. job market caused by the recession is one reason, but they're also lured by China's surging economy, tower cost of Living, and a chance to get ahead more quickly than they would in the U.S. Joshua Arjuna Stephens, who graduated from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 2007, took a summer job in Shanghai two years ago. "People thought I was nuts to go not speaking the language," says Stephens. Now he's proficient in Mandarin and a manager for XPD Media, a Beijing company that makes online games. Sarabeth Berman, a 2006 graduate of Barnard College in New York, went to Beijing at age 23 to be...