A very cool site called MandarinTools.com has a page wherein you can find “your Chinese name.” So I put in “Johnny Appleseed” (with my birthdate since it insisted on one) and found that maybe when Loud Obbs has a minute he might want to look into the story of Ai Jian Huan. Since the Philadelphia Inquirer is on the story too:

Farmers have been growing apples here since before the Civil War, and as times have changed, they have changed with them, planting smaller trees to speed up harvests and growing popular new varieties to satisfy changing tastes.

Like farmers in the bigger apple-producing states, they are becoming increasingly anxious about the prospect of China flooding the U.S. market with their fresh apples - an event many believe is inevitable, even if it could be years away.

Why is a country which for thirty years has been imposing a draconian population-control program—presumably at least in part because it has concerns about remaining able to feed its own people—taking over the fresh apple trade?

Well, because with labor policies like this, it can:  Read more