… by far the most well-informed and entertaining account of life in the Middle
Kingdom by an Indian …' Sunil Sethi, India Today
India and China share a 3500 km border and have interacted with each other for
over 2000 years. It is remarkable then that their people know so little of each
other: what they think, how they live, their language, customs and philosophy.
Or even their cuisine.
Very much the average Indian in her knowledge of China when she set out for
Beijing in 2002, Pallavi Aiyar soon became intrigued by the country and its
strange mix of material prosperity and authoritarianism. As