Saturday, May 21, 2011

Chongqing Impression

Some readers of my earlier post "Chongqing Nostalgia. Where Is It?" asked for more stories about Chongqing.  Here are two detailed pieces I wrote that appeared elsewhere last week:

Chongqing Dispatch - China Beat
Gingko Fever in Chongqing  - Atlantic / Fallows

2 comments:

gregory said...

i would love to hear the stories of the now-elderly ex-red guards, reflecting upon their youth. would love to see a filmed documentary ...

am not sure if it could be distributed, even today .. but i believe it could be done so as to have great healing power ...

i love the faces of the old people i encounter everyday, my language skills are too weak to do this project, but somebody shoule

Xujun said...

Here is one I wrote a few years ago: Mao's Red Guards 40 Years Later.

Another piece on this topic is forthcoming in an anthology, which will be published next year.