Beijing has just launched its first manned space flight.
The "taikonaut" on board, Yang Li Wei, was quoted from above
the cosmos as saying that he discovered his native land in its true, indescribable
colours from a technicolour vertigo that surpasses language and imagination.
In order to achieve our own "Chinacolor" we have taken another
trip: as close to China as possible, in its innermost heart. Yet, we have
been over-whelmed by the same sense of vertigo ? the exhilaration of a
fascinating and profound universe, a vibrant symphony that will play in
our dreams forever.Four thousand years of Chinese civilization, four essential
points. Time and space. At our own pace, we cast our lenses over the whole
country, where diversity and uniformity melt into one endless culture.
In the Middle Kingdom, one finds a land rich in minerals and vegetation.
We saw how mother nature finds bigger fish to fry, how rush hour traffic
can blush and how palm trees turn red. We saw bamboo acting like guardians
of temples, rickshaw riders between the devil and the blue sea and rocks
that show their best profile.
This is the real China.
A country where rivers’ names are blue and yellow. China in its
true colours.
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