Each morning for almost six years in China, I woke to the buzzing of my phone. It wasn’t the news desk pretending they’d forgotten the time difference or an alert detailing Donald Trump’s latest crime against adjectives. No, it was a three-digit number that told me in one glance the air quality readings around Shanghai.
“It’s 180 today,” I would often note.
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Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com
