Revolutionary ideas deep inside China - Tuesday August 7, 2007 11:55AM

SI.com - Olympics - S.L. Price: Revolutionary ideas deep inside China - Tuesday August 7, 2007 11:55AM She's right in identifying you, at least. You are distinctly foreign and, notebook in hand and photographer by your side, obviously media, but what she hasn't picked up on is this: Here in China you feel about as threatening as an infant. A first-time visitor from the U.S., you don't know the language or mores; you can't even begin to have a feel for subtleties three millennia in the making. You may as well be deaf, dumb and blind for all the good your senses have done you these past two weeks as you've tried to take the measure of a burgeoning nation preparing to stage the costliest, most anticipated, most transformative athletic event in history.