Chasing the Chinese dream: stories from modern China

China is undergoing the biggest and fastest societal and economic change in human history.

Driving this dizzying transformation is the idea of the 'Chinese Dream', the promise that in the new China, anyone can make it.

Journalist and writer Nick Holdstock has travelled the length of this huge country in order to find out the reality behind this rhetoric - from the factory-owner to the noodle seller, from the karaoke maids to the hoteliers, and from the deserted, ageing countryside to the young and overcrowded cities.