all started with an ‘I do’!” Cristóbal Minguez, a native of the Basque region in north Spain, said of his first encounter with China. The year was 2005, when a friend asked him if he wanted to take a trip to China. Although the adventure was a brief one, barely two weeks, it would become a turning point not only in his career, but in his life. “The last day, right before returning to Spain, I emptied out my backpack and stuffed it with souvenirs,” he recalled. “But what I didn’t know was that something else had made its way into that bag, a seed
