标题: An Interview with an Icelandic Student Who Arrived at Beijing in Late 1975 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 5-15-2016 16:07 标题: An Interview with an Icelandic Student Who Arrived at Beijing in Late 1975 Jonathan Kaiman, What It Was Like to Be a Foreign Exchange Student in Beijing at the Eend of the Cultural Revolution. Los Angeles Times, May 15, 2016. www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg ... 515-snap-story.html
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"Ragnar Baldursson first came to China as a student in 1975, a year before the Cultural Revolution ended. He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Peking University and is now a deputy chief of mission at the Icelandic Embassy in Beijing and the author of the book 'Nineteen Seventy-Six: A Student Revolutionary Remembers the Year Mao Died [Penguin Books China, March 2016].'
"Now we’re going through a new phase of changes, where access to information has dramatically changed, with social media — where information about incidents spreads instantaneously throughout society. And if they’re considered to be disruptive they disappear. But they’re already out there.
Note: "There's also nostalgia. People like me from the West listen to Deep Purple or Pink Floyd, but people here listen to Peking Opera or 'revolutionary songs.' "