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"Searching for China" is Brian Lyndon's memoir of 35 years of living in China. This is an American "Chinese Dream" story. The author details how China has changed his life over the past thirty years, vividly demonstrating his personal exploration, understanding, and integration into China as well as his emotional changes during the process. During the thirty years of his association with China, Linden and his family have witnessed the development of China. In 1984, Linden was cleaning carpets while attending night school in Chicago. By chance, he won a Chinese government scholarship, came to China to study, and experienced China's reform and opening up in the 1980s. During his arrival in Beijing, he studied Chinese, starred in movies, became a photojournalist, entered Nanjing University Johns Hopkins Research Center for graduate studies and met his wife. This valuable experience enabled him to return to the United States as a doctoral candidate at Stanford University. In 2004, he returned to China with his wife and two young sons and took root in Xizhou, Yunnan. He devoted himself to protecting and restoring China's (national) material cultural heritage and founded the "Xilinyuan" hotel brand. Linden participated in the exploration and development of the inner texture of Chinese rural areas and became a practitioner of international education, connecting China and the world so that more foreigners and Chinese can have a deeper understanding of the real China.