Writing a grant application in Chinese: The pitfalls and pleasures of research in Beijing

Little did the organizers of the Great Exhibition of 1851 know that, less than 150 years later, their fund1 would support a young scientist's ambition to work in China. Sarah Perrett had already had a brief taste of research in Beijing, supported by a Royal Society Visiting Grant, and this served only to whet her appetite for a much longer stint at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Biophysics (IBP). At the completion of her 1851 Research Fellowship, Sarah was appointed to a faculty position in IBP and she has now been there nearly 8 years.