The Cultural Aspect of Wildlife Trade in China · Global Voices
Oiwan Lam

Terroir from Beijing Cream criticizes professional photojournalist Patrick Brown's photographs series, Trading to Extinction for being over simplified in the explanation of wildlife trade in China as “naive” and “greed”:
this is a way of life for some Chinese as well. It doesn’t mean it’s right – it just means that the culture here deserves to be equally acknowledged before it is so easily dismissed and condemned…Chinese culture does change, but it won’t do so to appease the self-righteous criticism of everyone else.