After thirteen years of school, Jan Lukas Bosse had had enough of being lectured and also of the security of the first world. Therefore, he decided to go to China for a year to complete a one-year volunteer service at a small school in Beijing. During this year, he gained many interesting insights into the Chinese language and culture and decided to publish them on his blog, which you now hold in printed form. Due to the generous Chinese school holidays and the visa regulations that forced him to leave the country every two months, he also had a lot of time to travel in China and its neighboring countries. He often shared entertaining stories from his travels in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia.