Monday 21 November 2011

Old traditions and new promises

In Chapter 8 of Wild Swans, we read how the author's mother is now in Yibin, miles away from Manchuria. Locate these places on the map. Listen how life in Yibin is described.

In this place and time, the new Communist reforms and old Chinese customs are at odds. Can you spot those moments where people are dealing with those differences?

Where do you think your sympathies would lie at this moment? With the old traditions or the new promises?

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