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The book highlights not only the millennia-long history, religion, culture and arts of China but also the political vicissitudes and the rapid industrialization which marked the country's recent past. It is amazing how the author Valeri Petrov expresses the hidden poetry of everyday life in China with just a few accurate strokes - a dilapidated pagoda sitting next to a factory chimney under construction, a lotus leaf dancing on the dark surface of a lake, or a toil-worn old woman bending over a peanut bush. Petrov makes us feel as if we are fading in the emptiness of the Gobi Desert, getting carried away by the throbbing neon lights of Shanghai, or being swept by the foamy Yangtze River - until we finally sink into a kind of meditation of the senses and forget about our vanity, our petty worries and even ourselves. The present edition of this rare and little-known travel book has been published without editorial changes so as to preserve its unique authenticity.
