What is the role of China in the globalisation process? What survives of its political and cultural history? What ambitions and challenges does it have in the short and long term? What are its large scale projects of trade expansion? What is the state of relations between China and Spain? The lecturers and researchers in Oriental Studies, Mario Esteban and Sean Golden, respond to these and other questions, adressing the Asian giant’s complex internal reality, regional alliances and international relations.