The article describes the author's experience in China. Particular focus is given to the country's several tourist attractions including the Great Wall of China which is slated to be 2,480 mortised miles of esplanade, built over by 300,000 serfs, the 500-year-old pavilion of the Forbidden City, and the leaning Tiger Hill Pagoda. Moreover, the country is inferred to be the ancient Middle Kingdom, the world's oldest continuous civilization, a people and a nation that for 4,000 years has regarded the rest of the planet with condescension. However, it is also cited as a modern country of exquisite civility and already surpass its sanguinary internal disruptions, of eminent practicality.