Connecting through my personal home office to internet when I'm in China?

When traveling on business in China I often can't get to certain websites and have been told that I should set up a network or server using my personal home computer & router which is always on. I'm on a very fast DSL though my home router. I don't know how to go about setting the parameters so when I'm traveling and on a high speed internet connection at my hotel in China I can use my home computer and router to surf the internet and bypass their restrictions & censors. Would like to know how to set up the computer and the router. Step by step if possible or is there a program that would set up my Mac or a set of published directions that I can set my browser to go to and read or printout the diections. I would be most grateful for help with this.
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Perhaps what they meant was to have a system connected and running at home and then to use a program such as Apple's Remote Desktop, or Timbuktu, or VNC, etc, to remotely operate the system at home which will not have the same restrictions as your connection in China.
Or - if you setup a VPN connection at home (if your hardware/software can do so) then perhaps getting an IP throught he VPN and using that as a gateway migth get you around the restriction.

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