The vision of People’s Republic of China in the works of Tadeusz Różewicz “Sen kwiatu, serce smoka” [Dream of a flower, heart of a dragon], “Dwa skoki i już Pekin” [Two leaps and yet Beijing], “Przelot” [Overflight] i “W drodze” [On the way]

Tadeusz Różewicz, a 20th-century Polish poet, travelled to China in 1958. He wrote several prosaic texts about this travel and about his impression of China: “Sen kwiatu, serce smoka”, “Dwa skoki i już Pekin”, “Przelot” and “W drodze”. He sees stewardesses as actresses in a kind of theatre, he thinks about the psychical condition of a humans on the board of a plane. He writes about European and Chinese part of Shanghai’s identity, about Chinese characters’ meaning, about Chinese people and their Four Pests Campaign. An important part is the description of a Four Pests Exhibition. The poet sees China as a different world and he knows that many facts have been hidden