Javier Borràs Arumí is a young journalist who moved to Beijing to work in a Spanish news agency. There he discovered firsthand what China is like: seductive and schizophrenic, funny and deep, tender and dark. In these pages we will explore the gray streets of Maoism, the overwhelming Beijing nightclubs, the mosques of the Chinese Far West, the modern-millennial authoritarianism of the Communist Party, the Cantonese drone factories, the philosophy of Confucius and Han Fei, the hyperactive streets of Hong Kong, the literature of Yu Hua and Yan Lianke and the lost villages at the foot of the Great Wall. We will pray together with Chinese Christians. We will travel by train accompanied by young migrants. We will survive the hellish Pekingese traffic. We will drown in a spicy Sichuanese pot. We will run into teachers, politicians, greengrocers, journalists, thieves, cooks, prostitutes and retirees. With a style reminiscent of the best narrative journalism, the author introduces us to a China in which his own gaze will change as his knowledge of the country grows and mixes with his daily experiences. A combination of a travel book and an essay, written with an easy pen and a curious look, which takes us to a country as mysterious as it is fascinating.