From China A Fascinating Mysterious Country

Contrasts and similarities, novelties and repetition, contemplation and reflection. Language, art, society, science, landscapes and customes. The author,with his 35 year′s life experience in China, got to know one and another wonder. In this book he will share what he lived there.

Contrastes y coincidencias, novedades y reiteraciones, contemplación y reflexiones. Lengua, arte, sociedad, ciencia, paisaje, costumbres. El autor, pasando 35 años en China, fue descubriendo una maravillay otra. En el libro nos compartirá lo vivido.

Guillermo Dañino,born in 1929, was invited in 1979 to teach in Nanjing University，living and working35 years in China. After returning to Peru, he was appointed as sinologist professor in the University of San Marcos and the Catholic University of Peru and won the "China Book Special Contribution" Award

FOREWORD

FOREST OF CRANES

THE RAINBOW'S ARROW

GALLERY OF STORIES

HIGH-SPIRITED LADIES AND CONCUBINES

GIVE BACK MY RIVERS AND MOUNTAINS

JADE

BAGUA

FOUNDATION OF HAPPINESS

THE ELEGANCE OF CULTURE

SPRING IN THE FOREST

CONVERSATIONS IN THE LEISURE PAVILION

TIBET

YID - PHROG - LHA - MO

HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE

CLOUD OF EMERALDS BAD LUCK? GOOD LUCK? WHO KNOWS?

THE MUSIC-BOX STREAM

AT YOUR SERVICE

THE CITY OF NINE GATES

PRAIRIES, YURTS AND HORSES

ROOTS BELOW...

THE WHITE CLOUD

DRIFTING IN THE WIND

SLEDGEHAMMER PEAK

WINE SPRING

THE RED DESERT

GREEN GRASS

FRIENDSHIP

Discovering China from within was a revelation to me. Appreciating its beauty, studying its culture, making a commitment to its people are three possible perspectives for an outsider. If you adopt them in earnest, you will find yourself swept up in a whirlwind of information, an incomparable source of things to ponder and the most varied experience of humanity