China's Generation Gap: Beijing

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Chinese reporter Haining Liu travels to Beijing and finds out what it was like for people who grew up during the Cultural Revolution and how those who lived under strict communism relate to their children who have had much more material, individualistic lives. And she hears about new attitudes to work and education as more people choose to study and work and outside the state system.

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0:52.0	Hello, it's me Haining Lou, with something we're calling China's Generation Gap here on the BBC
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1:02.2	What we are exploring are the profound differences between generations,
1:06.6	where you live and what you do and how that it's changing the centuries old relations between
1:12.4	old and young in Chinese families.
1:18.0	Where better to start than the village?
1:21.0	The traditional backbone of Chinese society, a village called Bulau or in English never growing old, if only.
1:38.0	The village is in the mountains a few hours north of China's capital Beijing
1:46.0	and I'm meeting four generations of one family the Chans who have between them seen some of the most dramatic changes in recent Chinese history.
1:50.0	This is a lot of Mr. Chant's wife is Mr.. Chan's wife's aunt.
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