my relatives and friends first learned about my going to China, ‘When they joked I was going to a place further than the Moon,” Uwe Kräuter laughed. However, this unfamiliarity was shared by the peoples of both sides and when this German first set foot on Chinese soil in 1974, people would often gaze at him with a sense of curiosity.
“Back then, Beijing was still a quiet city—the cars were driving rather slow compared to those in Germany, and bicycles were everywhere. I was prepared for the differences between our countries. I wanted to see what China, a country with a long history and enormous historical achievements, actually looked like,” Kräuter told .
