1965年，波萨达从哥伦比亚出发，辗转墨西哥、温哥华、东京、香港之后到达北京，开始了他四段中国之旅的第一段。本书中收录的数十篇文章，创作时间跨度达五十余年。作者将他在不同时期经历的中国变迁娓娓道来，带读者进入一个不断发展变化、丰富多样的中国。

恩里克·波萨达·卡诺，哥伦比亚经济学家、作家、外交官，著名中国问题专家。曾任哥伦比亚驻中国大使馆领事、公使衔参赞、代理大使等职位，现任波哥大塔德奥大学亚太观察中心主任、孔子学院院长。
恩里克·波萨达曾前后四次来华，在中国生活、工作了17年，曾作为中央编译局外国专家参与了《毛主席语录》《毛泽东文选》《邓小平文选》等书西文版的翻译工作。

INTRODUCTION
PART Ⅰ EXPEDITION TO CHINA
01.We landed in Beijing by way of Hong Kong
02.Hong Kong, consumer paradise
03.The Friendship Hotel
04.Our children got new names
PART Ⅱ A STORM
05.A Colombian poet in trouble
06.A filmmaker pilloried
07.Our first trip back
08.Living in China for many years
09.Twenty-two lessons learned in China
10.In a house with a courtyard, friendship flourishes
PART Ⅲ ANNALS OF CHANGE
11.The lead-up to the reform and opening-up
12.Neo-Confucian China and consumption
13.Beijing was a forest of cranes
14.Everything changes in China
15.Beijing rebuilt in ten years
16.No longer what it used to be
17.My district, a neighbourhood of alleys
18.The commercial aspect of the reforms
19.The “floating population” and business fever
20.The reforms through the eyes of two Colombian diplomats
21.Revisiting Beijing
22.China: past and present
PART Ⅳ INTERNATIONAL WATCHTOWER
23.China and the global crisis
24.China’s position in global geopolitics
PART Ⅴ CULTURAL TRAITS AND CUSTOMS
25.Bird walkers
26.Caged crickets fight
27.In China, grandparents are in charge
28.China that hosts the Olympic Games
29.Mao Zedong as a poet
PART Ⅵ REVIEWS AND INTERVIEWS
30.Launch of En China Dos Veces la Vida
31.Seventeen years living in China
32.A long written story about China
33.Margarita gives the note
34.Enrique Posada, a Colombian who knows the most about China
35.The one who has opened the door to China in Colombia