China the Beautiful is Raymond Zhou's paean to his motherland for roughly half of the country's provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, written after returning home following a long absence. The author's real interest is always in ordinary people – their joys, concerns and anxieties, the break-taking beauty of the sceneries.
Raymond Zhou is a writer is hard to define or categorize:He is prolific in English and Chinese;his topics and interest cover many areas.from culture to social issue;he is comfortable with all media platforms,including print,online and television,or government-oriented,market-driven and grassroots;and he explore many genres,from journalistic reporting to commentary essays,to gener-busting experiments in fusing fiction and non-fiction.
