China is a country in transition, a country of contradictions and a country worthy of being discovered without bringing in preconceptions, because China is the country with the immortal smile and its all up to you what you find behind the beaming lips.

Rowin Mulder is not your typical tourist, but a traveller bent on discovering new horizons, on exploring the real China, the hidden China, the China behind the smile.

The road less travelled is a difficult one and full of unexpected hazards, twists and turns, but unfazed, our keen explorer plunges headlong into the muddle of smells, colours...