An Interview with an Icelandic Student Who Arrived at Beijing in Late 1975

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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

Quote:

"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.' "

Deep Purple
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple
( an English rock band; Years active 1968–1976, 1984–present)