SampanViking said:
Hello again Silverpike
As an older person, I am very interested in the effects and experience of living through a period of rapid change and development. I would be interested in reading from you a little bit a personal bio (your general age group and where you live) plus a personal perspective of living in a rapidly changing society and how your perceptions vary from those of your older family members. Is it disorientating to see areas you have known all your life, changed beyond recognition? do you see the future as optimistic and exciting, or do you find it just a little bit scary? you know that kind of thing.
No need to rush - take a few weeks if necessary. Who knows, I might be able to find a home for a really good work, beyond this forum
well , it really might take few weeks, the country's change that i have witness is already enormous! and i was just bron in 80's, my father wintness everything that china has gone throught from cultural revolution untill now, he would cry if you ask him about his feeling of this era
well, my hometwon is a northern coastal city called Qingdao, in Shandong province, it's certainly more traditional compare to cities like shanghai and beijing.
when i was in primary school, that's was earily 90s, i remeber the city was so different. there are barely any nice buildings, the best part of the city is the remain german villas by the seaside from the colonial time. cars are rare, and i have no idea what's a motorway is.
bicycle is the main transportation, and there are buses. wagons are common, in the summer, the farmer will drive the wagon to the city sell watermelons. i was always excited to see the horses, but bad thing about it, is the horse wil leave lots of poos on the road,
my father earn 250 yuan per month although he is the manager of a state-own factory. that's about 30-40 USD,but things are cheap! a lollipop is only 5 cents
my familiy live in a department with two bedrooms, which is also state property,
but around that time, the economy reformation and open policy is already starting to change people's life, i got my frist computer around in 92 or 93? and some businessmen start to using cell-phone, duirng eariler 90s, chinese film association would import ten hollywood films everyyear, and everytime they import those movies, there would be a huge crowd at the cinema.
frist time i heard about micheal jackson was in the middle school, many of my classmates are fans, also, teenagers start to like football, for the frist time in chinese television history, italian world cup was live broadcast...
by the time i grew up, the constuction sites are everywhere in the city, for few years, people went crazy about stock market,although they barely know anything about it.
around that time, for kids, a can of coke is really a treat! it's qutie expensive autcally , 2.5 yuan, i still remember,then i heard something called Mcdonalds and burgers that time, to have a junk food meal is a pretty cool thing for kids to show off.
then it came cars, because my father runs a factory, so he have his own bussiness car(well, at same time, a familiy car).
volkswengen,Audi, Toyota are the main car models on the road, you barely saw other brands!
well, i guess that was the time china start to westernlize,
ok, to be continues
Ender Wiggin said:
I have several questions: I consider myself an "apologist" or thats what other people call me anyways
Whenever the topic of China comes up I will generally defend the PRC whenever I see that the discussion is either A) Biased or B) is under a misconception so I strive to correct some.
But i have been asked certain question that while pouring through your constitution haven't been able to answer.
What are the Mobility Rights within the People's Republic? Do all Chinese citizens have the right to live and work in any province and also the right to move to any other province or leave (emmigrate from) the People's Republic? Do they also have the right to be protected from unlawful deportations? And the right to be compensated should they be forced to move from their homes?
well, of course,you can live and work in another city and province, actually most of the works in shanghai and beijing nowadays are from other provinces
this new year, chines transportation had to move 1.7 billion passages(how do you call it 'person time') going or leaving home.
lookandsay said:
我来自中国，我是今天上午通过搜索引擎发现的。我是想来学英语的，同时又对军事比较感兴趣，希望能达到两得的目的。不知道汉字能发过去吗？
当然可以，你要是学英文就别用中文了
bd popeye said:
Thank you for your answers. I'm just have long been intrested in what's going on in the PRC.
I do really think there are more internet users in the PRC than anywhere eles. I'm sure I read that somewhere. I can understand the PRC government cracking down on porn..porn is sick!!!. Whatever else they do ..well it's their country they can run it as they see fit.
You cleared some stuff up for me reguarding the purcahse of homes and auto's .I thought only certain citizens could purchase these items. I was wrong about that.
Thanks again!
well, you're welcome,
but you know what, for chinese kid, perhaps small amount of regular porn will do them some good! because of the china's conservative tradition, chinese parents would never talk to their children about sex, and the schools don't have this kind of education as well! the porn is actually is only 'information' or 'education' they could possibly get!
well, i do sick of chinese censorship, everytime i went back, i can't access some of my favourite websites.
about phurcasing cars and house, well, you don't have to be speical in order to buy them, but if you are just a ordinary worker in beijing or shanghai, there is a good chance that you may never be able to afford a apartment in life time!
and ordinary workers earn about 24,000 yuan per year, but a 100 square meter --apartment in shanghai now cost about 1 million yuan !
so ,yes, only certainly citizens could buy a house, rich citizens!
T-U-P said:
i wouldn't call them underground, they're just unofficial. and you're right, pro-government religions are always welcome. as for the buying house part, i've heard (haven't experienced it myself) that you only own the land that your house is on for a certain number of years (99 i think), then the land goes back to the government, not your offsprings. at least that's what i heard, but since im not 99 years old yet, i don't know if it's true or not.
yea, in china, you just buy the house, not the land, the government have the right to take the land back 99 yrs later.but i am not so bothered by this policy, nowaday ,according to chinese city's rebuild speed, no building is going to survive for another century anyway!
