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Discovering another China from South Africa, reflecting on welfare, temporary residence permits, migrant worker sheds, illegal demolitions, and new countryside. Qin Hui is a professor and doctoral supervisor in the History Department of Tsinghua University. He is a rare encyclopedic scholar in our era. His main research directions are peasant history and economic history. This book consists of three parts: The Biography of Mandela, Looking at China from South Africa, and Nineteen Years of New South Africa. Mandela's biography is self-contained, telling the history from Mandela's birth to leading the South African people to abolish apartheid, establish democratic South Africa, and achieve racial reconciliation. Nineteen Years of New South Africa, reviews the history of South Africa since its transformation, and deeply reflects on the 2008 riots in South Africa, South Africa's democracy, South Africa's trade unions and social welfare system, and the role of the transformed South African Communist Party in society.