The most revealing and cliche-shattering portrait of the Chinese people.

I: Songs of innocence -- The first steps -- Strangers -- II: Outside looking in -- The state of an unpredictable nation -- The foreign ghetto -- Officials and bureaucrats -- Model heroes, model lives -- National minorities -- The price of a song -- Foreign games -- The other China -- The foreign "experts" -- III: Xidan -- The "tiny democracy movement" -- IV: Inside looking out -- New friends -- The activists -- The police -- The city versus the country -- The pleasures of the people -- The burden of the masses -- The four seasons -- The Chinese way.