"He named me Gao Tianrui, based on the pronunciation of my English name," he said.
After Taiwan he worked in several places, including New York, Singapore and a 12 year stint in Hong Kong.
Crossman first came to the Chinese mainland for a period in 1981, when he went to Shanghai and Suzhou in eastern Jiangsu Province.
"Wherever I went, I had at least 30 people following me, asking about Hong Kong, how much I earned and how I felt about the victory of the Chinese women's volleyball team," he says. In 1981, the Chinese women's volleyball team won the world championship for the first time.
His first visit to Beijing was six years later on business.
"There were few cars and lots of bicycles on the road, and many people were wearing the Chinese tunic suit."
Crossman and his family moved to Beijing permanently in 1997, when the traffic was heavier and city busier.
"There were only two subway lines, with no air-conditioning," he says.
Since then he has continually worked and lived in Beijing, and has gone through most of the ups and downs of a regular Beijinger.
In 2003 during the outbreak of SARs many people fled the city, but he was not worried.
"With empty roads, the traffic was better," he says.
Despite feeling like a local of the city, he was not even able to get a ticket to attend the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, which annoyed him.
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