INTRODUCTION
PART I EXPEDITION TO CHINA
01. We landed in Beijing by way of Hong Kong
02.Hong Kong, consumer paradise
03.The Friendship Hotel
04.Our children got new names
PART II A STORM
05.A Colombian poet in trouble
06.A filmmaker pilloried
07.Our first trip back
08.Living in China for many years
09.Twenty-two lessons learned in China
10.In a house with a courtyard, friendship flourishes
PART III ANNALS OF CHANGE
11. The lead-up to the reform and opening-up
12. Neo-Confucian China and consumption
13. Beijing was a forest of cranes
14. Everything changes in China
15. Beijing rebuilt in ten years
16. No longer what it used to be
17. My district, a neighbourhood of alleys
18. The commercial aspect of the reforms
19. The "floating population" and business fever
20. The reforms through the eyes of two Colombian diplomats
21. Revisiting Beijing
22. China: past and present
PART IV INTERNATIONAL WATCHTOWER
23. China and the global crisis
24. China's position in global geopolitics
PART V CULTURAL TRAITS AND CUSTOMS
25. Bird walkers
26. Caged crickets fight
27. In China, grandparents are in charge
28. China that hosts the Olympic Games
29. Mao Zedong as a poet
PART VI REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
30. Launch of En China Dos Veces la Vida
31. Seventeen years living in China
32. A long written story about China
33. Margarita gives the note
34. Enrique Posada, a Colombian who knows the most about China
35. The one who has opened the door to China in Colombia