CONTENTS

Prologue
Two Journeys

Chapter One

Into a World Apart

Chapter Two

Bureaucracy and Chinese Time

Chapter Three

In at the Deep End

Chapter Four

A Breath of the West

Chapter Five

Open Homes

Chapter Six

Technology – and its Limits

Chapter Seven

A Range of Values

Chapter Eight

Winter Festivities

Chapter Nine

Illusion and Disillusion

Chapter Ten

Boris in Spring

Chapter Eleven

Standing Alongside

Chapter Twelve

Farewells

Epilogue

Stand with Me Under the Huang Jiao Tree