delightful propaganda poster cover, having these cultural revolution ear remark people looking ideaisticly at the sky. a very, very different china now from the time of the poster but something about the image i was trying to portray. the second thing i'm going to do is talk about some of the larger currents underway in china affecting its development, affecting the rest of us, that come together in this chronicle i'm telling in the book, and ones which are positive, some mixed and some bad. but why various suspected of champion's high-tech amibitions are significant for the larger themes running through modern china. then, finally i'm going to talk about the big contemporary questions for china. recent items in the the news. the trend of u.s.-chinese religiouses relations and what we can expect after the presidential election and the change of power in china. so that's the man. first about the background of the book. second about the themes of china that i found myself self-discovering over the last six years, and then third, about china in the larger sense. how we should think about what