I've not long come back from China. I tell you what, they are among the most hospitable people I have ever met, anywhere. I was staying in what was called a village in the Anhui province, but it was really just a few houses dotted around a hillside. They lived off their land, grew their rice, bred their chucks and kept a few ponds for their carp. They had some hunting dogs which I spent some time with and they ranged from looking like Lancashire Heelers at one end of the spectrum, through to what you'd swear were collie/greys and then up to Spitz types. I was sat out on the yard with the fowl