To understand China better you have to know something about China’s history. This book is based on a successful series in German weekly Stern – from the first emperor until the Olympic Games.

From communist to TV reporter to CEO in China: An adventurer of his generation tells his unbelievable story.

Thin shoulders, blue corduroy trousers, cheap glasses, long hair, good middle-school student, non-smoker, shy – and nevertheless Adrian Geiges is feared in the cosy Black Forest town of Staufen as a rebel. Why? He is a member of the youth organization of the German Communist Party. Active in the peace movement and firm in the theories of Mao, Marx and Lenin, he dreams about leaving bourgeois existence behind and starting a new life as a professional revolutionary. When the party sends him one year to a secret cadre school in East Germany, he gets acquainted with the dialectic of the socialist reality: singing revolutionary songs, strange prohibitions, and even communist sexual morality. With enthusiasm he starts his long march to change the world – but instead he himself changes like the world around him: As a tabloid TV reporter he looks for sensations in the Moscow red light areas, becomes a tough boss of an international corporation in China and enjoys the company of Shanghai beauties.

Totally honest, totally funny and totally frivolous he tells about his life between Mao studies and Chinese night clubs, oral sex and peace marches, class struggle and corruption.

The first authentic investigation: Sexuality in the Soviet Union. In frank talks with young women and men the authors show the effects of the changing society on the people and their personal relations. Love, sex and perestroika – an insight into the everyday life in the Soviet Union.

“This book is about the still existing unequality of man and women, about sexist behaviour of Soviet men and the intolerance against everything which differs from the norm. But Adrian Geiges and Tatyana Suvorova also write about the resistance especially of women against these old norms. Their report is the first investigation of the sexual state of the Soviet society after decades of moral stagnation.”
Günter Amendt in his epilogue to the book

“The beds are governed by frustration. A Moscow female journalist and her West German male colleague wanted to know whether the perestroika has changed the sex life of the Soviet people. Result: The old prudery continues.”
Katja Gloger, Stern

“The book not only names the puritanic, legal and official taboos, but also asks what stands behind them… Adrian Geiges and Tatyana Suvorava succeeded in the nearly impossible, because each time when they visited a factory, a school, an institute or a ministry, they first had to break a hole into the wall of the ‘responsible comrades’ through signatures, stamps and telephone approval. But after they succeeded getting past the bureaucrats, they met open people. The young women and men replied willingly and sincerely.”
Vladimir Pylyov, Moscow News