A passion for chinese culture

A Dutch Sinologist has spent more than 50 years studying the country's language, classic literature.

For Wilt Idema, books are the best guides in life.

As a child, the vivid descriptions of China in Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck's books sparked Idema's interest in the country. He later read classic Chinese literature and spent whole days pouring through works at the National Library of China.