The China question

I've started doing a little background reading (and viewing!) on geographic inquiry into China. I have no idea where this will lead me, but it's so dang different from everything else I know about. It's not that I'm casting around for obscure topics, but rather that there isn't another place I can think of that we hear so much about, but know so little about. The rising superpower, yet I have no idea what it looks like on the ground.

So little time, so much to do.