For Margot Schueller, it all began with a film about the Chinese Cultural Revolution. At school, the geography teacher showed footage of singing peasants quoting the Mao book before working in the fields. Margot Schueller was immediately skeptical about the authenticity of the scenes and wanted to learn more about China. The country never let go of her. „When the policy of the four modernizations began in China in the early eighties, I chose agrarian reform as the topic for my final thesis in the economics course,“ she reports.