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China's Cultureless Revolution
Popular culture is lagging behind real life in the new China, as political
control over mass communication remains strict. James Harding explains
how the film industry, in particular, experiences the tension at the heart
of modern China: a liberalising economy within a one-party state. |
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Girl Power in China
China's one-child policy has had a profound and unintended consequence:
the rise of educated, ambitious single women. Lesley Downer believes this
is China's equivalent of the western women's liberation movement in the
1960s. |
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Lives in Transition
On July 1, 1997, over a hundred and fifty years of British rule ended
in Hong Kong as it returned to China. During its complex history, Hong
Kong has grown from a nearly uninhabited island to a thriving, living
city with over 6 million residents. From May through mid-October, 1997
Lives in Transition gathered regularly updated diaries chronicling how
these momentous changes impacted on the day-to-day lives of a diverse
group of Hong Kong residents. |
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Losing the Plot in Hong Kong
In 1992 Chris Patten abandoned the policy of co-operation with China
over Hong Kong established by foreign office officials. Percy Cradock
who negotiated the original 1984 agreement with China, describes the subsequent
mistakes which he believes have left Hong Kong's 6m people worse off. |
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Roots, rights and residency in Hong Kong
28 year old Penny has been battling for the right to live with her family
since she was a little girl of 8. She's been separated from them by the
border between mainland China and Hong Kong. Although her parents are
Hong Kong permanent residents who live and work in the territory - and
although four years ago, Penny married a Hong Kong-born man, her applications
to come and join her family had been without success. |
