ABSTRACT
Telling the people's story is a task ill-served by an over-reliance upon traditional quantitative methods of social science research. China's people smile and laugh and the feeling that pours out as they let go of their self-consciousness represents the two sides of China: the formal, formidable emerging world power and the sensitive, delicate, intimate people. The first question is how to classify China when it seems all some phases of development are concurrently found. To make the journey from the bounds of what we know to an understanding of daily life in an upper corner of China. The route of the research effort is thus from a general Occidental reality to a very specific group of old people in Shenyang, for it is within her people that the heart of China can be found.
