"Throughout the 1970s and 1980s both the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce and its long-serving Secretary General, Ulf Franke, served as the main bridge between an emerging China and the international arbitration community, a fact which has left deep imprints on Chinese arbitration rules and practice", writes Michael Moser in Ulf Franke's Liber Amicorum. Alison Ross reports on an enduring relationship.