Marc Matten’s interest in China began with a visit to a flea market in the 1990s. While still in school, he stumbled across a book by Edgar Snow, the US journalist who recorded his encounter with Mao Zedong in the world-famous bestseller „Red Star Over China“. Matten was fascinated. „A little later, when our city library was sorting out old holdings, I took everything that had to do with China.“