Dreams of the Dragon’s Children

In 1985, Navroze Contractor, an award-winning Indian cinematographer, joins as international crew to make a groundbreaking film in China. Their focus: the dreams and aspirations of the country’s young people. As he embarks on the three-month-long expedition in what is to him a strange new land, Contractor, an ardent fan of Chinese history for more than two decades, experiences the everyday reality of Red China. Now he experiences everything from dealing with Chinese bureaucracy to eating snakes. Part travelogue, part cultural study, part film history, this book provides an insightful and charming chronicle of daily life in China in the mid-1980s.