CONTENTS
Introduction
Expedition to China
We land in Hong Kong, next stop Beijing
Hong Kong, consumer paradise
The Friendship Hotel
Our children get new names
Pages from a storm
A Colombian poet in trouble
The Decade of Chaos
A filmmaker pilloried
Our first trip back
Living in China for not one but many years
Twenty-two lessons learned
In a house with a courtyard, friendship flourishes
Annals of change
Back ground to the reform and opening-up
Neo-Confucian China and consumption
Beijing was a forest of cranes
To contradict Voltaire, everything changes in China
Beijing, rebuilt in ten years
Remnants of the past and heralds of today
My district, a neighbourhood of alleys
The commercial face of the reforms
The floating population and business fever
The reforms through the eyes of two Colombian diplomats
Revisiting Beijing
China past and present
International Watchtower
China and the global crisis
China's position in global geopolitics
Cultural traits and customs
Confucianism, still current and constant
Bird walkers
Caged crickets fight
In China, grandparents are in charge
The China that hosts the Olympic Games
Characteristics of the new Chinese family
Mao Zedong, the poet
Review and interviews
Launch of Twice The Life In China
Seventeen years living in the grandeur of China
China the novel
Epilogue