NORTHERN PLANNER

Rob wants to know what picture you think best represents China.  Have a read of his post and join in, planning type people need tos stick together and help each other, plus, he's going to share collective findings, which will be interesting.

 
I've chosen a Ming Dynasty jar because, from a personal perspective, when I make enough money to retire early (ha!) I'll go back to university and study Chinese history, both ancient and modern, I can't think if a richer or more diverse subject.

On a more serious note, what happens in China will increasingly effect everyone's lives and you can't truly understand what drives a nation, it's psysche, what it wants and how it behaves without understanding how it got here, as Simon Schama's The American Future, a History so searingly demonstrates.