Marie wrote her travel tips webpage to ease the way for those also planning to adopt from China. You aren t going to Mars. You re only going to China. Best thing you can do is educate yourself before you go. It will enrich your experience and understanding of the country tremendously.
China is awash in symbolism.
Even a window or a brick has a story to tell if you can read it. Remember, China isn t Mars, but it IS another culture, and a very rich one. It is so easy for us to see something and interpret it from an American point of view, sometimes erroneously. He said it was at the very end of a narrow alley. I realized later he had described a hutong.