The second journey of a Chinese mandarin from the tenth century - to the present day. This time it is a forced journey. Fleeing from slander and slander, Gao-dai again resorts to the help of the “compass of time” and goes to the year 2000 to the country of the “big noses” to find his historian friend and find out how long his enemies and persecutors will flourish in his homeland, in Celestial Empire. But everything turns out to be not so simple - since his first visit Great Changes have taken place here, but Confucius warned: “Woe to him who lives in an era of change!” New adventures - and misadventures - and conclusions! New letters to ancient China! Herbert Rosedorfer is one of the finest stylists of modern German-language prose. The words of a famous German critic most accurately characterize his work: “With inexhaustible imagination, Rosendorfer piles one incredible situation on top of another, which, however, only enhances the authenticity of the persons, circumstances and human relationships he depicts. He does not invent anything, but only allows us to look at himself from the outside."