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Layers of Beijing - Mr. Shi's Story
Saturday, May 4, 2019 15:00 to 17:30
Beijing Postcards, Yangmeizhu Byway (杨梅竹斜街97号)
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Price: ¥300

Layers of Beijing - Mr. Shi's Story

Price: ¥300

Layers of Beijing - Mr. Shi's Story
Saturday, May 4, 2019 15:00 to 17:30
Beijing Postcards, Yangmeizhu Byway (杨梅竹斜街97号)
Organizer: Beijing Postcards More Events

Price: ¥300

Layers of Beijing - Mr. Shi's Story

Saturday, May 4, 2019 15:00 to 17:30 Beijing Postcards, Yangmeizhu Byway (杨梅竹斜街97号)

Price: ¥300

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Saturday, May 4, 2019 15:00 to 17:30

Beijing Postcards, Yangmeizhu Byway (杨梅竹斜街97号) Beijing Postcards, Yangmeizhu Byway (杨梅竹斜街97号)
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Beijing Postcards is a company dedicated to Beijing history. We conduct archival research and oral history projects in order to create original walks, talks, events and historical souvenirs. We uses the cityscape of Beijing to explore Chinese thought and ideas. All of our events are themed and we aim to make them challenging, inspiring and fun. Our goal is to take you off the beaten path, in every sense, and to use our research to help you view and engage with Beijing in new ways.

 

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70 years ago “Beijing” was not the capital of China. It is easy to forget, but our neighbor Mr.Shi remembers. He was standing at the imperial gate of Qianmen when the Communists came in.
The scruffy-looking soldiers did not look as modern as the Republican army that had just fled to Taiwan, but the discipline of the soldiers amazed him. No mentionable looting was taking place. But, with the Communists, wave upon wave of seemingly endless social campaigns started. Illiteracy, rats, sparrows, imperialists and rightists were all targeted in the enormous Communist effort to change society and transform Beijing into the Communist capital of China, and industries were moved into old temples and brothels and opium dens closed down...

“Layers of Beijing” creates a portrait of the time from 1949 to the present day, with an emphasis on the dramatic changes of the 1950s. Based upon interviews and archival research, we have made a portrait of Beijing from the perspective of those who have lived through the immense changes.

It has been an illuminating experience talking to people who remember the city before and just after the Communists arrival. Not long ago camels still carried in coal from the mines of Mentougou, the gigantic city walls were still in place. Wood-fired buses rambled through the streets in a flume of black smoke, and ration coupons were just as important as money in hand.

Our neighbor Mr.Shi knows because he was there.


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Beijing Postcards is a company dedicated to Beijing history. We conduct archival research and oral history projects in order to create original walks, talks, events and historical souvenirs. We uses the cityscape of Beijing to explore Chinese thought and ideas. All of our events are themed and we aim to make them challenging, inspiring and fun. Our goal is to take you off the beaten path, in every sense, and to use our research to help you view and engage with Beijing in new ways.

 

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