You almost forget you are in sub-Saharan Africa, says a foreign businessman well acquainted with the region.

差点忘了自己是在撒哈拉以南的非洲。一位对该地区十分熟悉的外国商人如是说。

It took him a month and a half to collect the opium from the foreign businessmen even though he met many difficulties.

尽管遇到重重困难，他还是花了一个半月的时间才从洋商那里收集到了鸦片。

Having worked as an analyst (for the Economist Intelligence Unit, our sister company) and a consultant, he wrote books on China's seduction of foreign businessmen and Asia's crony capitalists.

Studwell 曾经在本报的姊妹公司经济学人信息部担任过分析人士，也曾经从事过咨询工作。他写过几本书，论述过中国对外商的吸引力、以及亚洲的裙带资本家等等。