As reading the documents at the end of the chapter, there are documents about Chinese people and their view points on certain topics. I found one of the articles interesting.
There is an article called "A Chinese Buddhist in India". This article talks about a highly educated Buddhist monk from China, Xuanzang. He writes about how he had a long journey to India for a couple reasons. He mentions that he is disappointed that he couldn't fulfill and learn all there is to known about Buddhism in his home country.
It actually saddened me when i read how he wrote, "I have doubts and have puzzled in my mind, but I could find no one to solve them. That was why I decided to travel to the West". The fact that no one could answer his questions back home infers that Buddhisms wasn't as practiced back in China as in India.
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