Having lived in China for the most part of the last 11 years of my life, not a day goes by without reading some random international news article that wrongfully reports about China. This (among many other reasons, which I won't get into here) leads to China existing in almost two parallel realities: the official one based on data, numbers and policies, and the practical reality that is actually lived in the country (the correlation between the two is not always as linear as one could assume). Analysts and "China observers" constantly report and comment about China, more often than not based on "official sources and data" but little to no real contact on the ground. No matter how much China's economy grows and how much media exposure it gets from around the globe, the country is still shrouded by a thick layer of mystery and misconceptions that generate confusion in the eyes of those looking in from the outside.
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