Crashing the Party by Scott Savitt

Crashing the Party by Scott Savitt

Author:Scott Savitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619028531
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2016-10-02T00:00:00+00:00


91. Before it was ransacked by French and British troops in 1860 during the second Opium War.

92. Bumming in Beijing , produced and directed by Wu Wenguang, won critical acclaim at international film festivals upon its eventual release in 1991. It is generally recognized as China’s first underground documentary film.

93. Life in the Middle Kingdom is published in 1990 by Bücher, a German publishing house.

chapter sixteen

Why did the spark go out of Chinese civilization after the seventeenth century? How did a nation that set the pace for the world for thousands of years suddenly become so weak and vulnerable? What did we possess yesterday that we have lost today? China is pondering. Her children are questioning history.

—from the June 1988 television documentary River Elegy



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