 then I could ask him in much more detail about these places. I think if I hadn't been posted in China for that long with the Times and been able to travel to these regions, then I wouldn't have been able to ask him those questions, and he wouldn't have volunteered those answers. Finally, Ed, at the end of the book, this is one of the last pages, you say China came to mean more than just a place where I had worked for a period. What does it mean?