Here is the China of years past that has filled my dreams and imagination. Here was my view across the lake on my way to the Summer Palace in Beijing (June 2009)









The China of today is more complicated than my imagination allowed for. It is the quintessential land of paradoxes & extremes, age-old wisdom alongside idiosyncratic superstitions about cabbage. I loved China. In that way I love tigers. Love & fear, awe and dread, beauty and ferocity.