In may nine hundred sixty six mouths they dont officially announce the start of the cultural revolution. He wanted to create a new kind of communism one that would reinvigorate and consolidate the revolution. At the time only a few europeans were living in china how did the revolution affect their lives. The wave of political renewal in china served as inspiration for many young europeans they demonstrated against their own governments. The grange proletarian cultural revolution has often been from mantle sized in europe but what was it really like in china back there in. These apartments are located at the Foreign Studies University in beijing. Paul crook is british and lives in london but he grew up in beijing his mother isabel who was born in one thousand nine hundred fifteen has spent most of her life in china pulled visits whenever he can isabel was an enthusiastic supporter of communism from an early age so it was pauls father david who arrived in china in one thousand nine hundr
In may nine hundred sixty six dont officially announce the start of the cultural revolution. He wanted to create a new kind of communism one that would reinvigorate and consolidate the revolution. At the time only a few europeans were living in china how did the revolution affect their lives. The wave of political renewal in china served as inspiration for many young europeans they demonstrated against their own governments. The grange proletarian cultural revolution has often been romanticized in europe but what was it really like in china back then in. These apartments are located at the Foreign Studies University in beijing. Paul crocker is british and lives in london but he grew up in beijing his mother isabelle who was born in one thousand nine hundred fifteen has spent most of her life in china paul visits her whenever he can isabel was an enthusiastic supporter of communism from an early age so it was pauls father david who arrived in china in one thousand nine hundred thirty se
revolutions or wherever it was that you met them then you have a sort of. in there were suspicions you felt they were. the foreigners visits were carefully planned out there we re not allowed to travel around without government minders. the police of course we didn t see any of the horrible things that were going on people being beaten up the executions it was like stepping into the pages of the beijing review the government s weekly news magazine we went to all the places that were pictured in that magazine and saw what we wanted to see if we saw what confirmed our belief that china was doing well. danielle pollo and her women s group spent nearly two months travelling around the
mitigate it by a sense of this incredibly unbelievable. call a comedy call it satire call it whatever in there. and it s one way of dealing with it now i think that s. one way that i was dealing with it was to to to to to mitigate it with a sideways look at reality is that enough to. get. out if you find out it was you know life on. how. you feel. it still leaves a very very you re still truly desperate there s a working. danielle pollo now lives in paris. she s continued her efforts to try to make the world a better place. in twenty sixteen she joined the movement which focuses on
a number of european students to shift their political views sharply to the left and many of them now became a symbol of resistance against imperialism these young people rose up against the political and social establishment that had come to power after world war two and demanded equality for all. maoist groups were particularly popular in france and many students committed themselves to the chairman s ideology. danielle pollo was working in a textile factory at the time she was inspired by mouse philosophy and tried to spread his message to her coworkers. our biggest wish was to visit china to see what was going on for ourselves we wanted to take part in the cultural revolution and then bring our experiences back to france we believed we could bring the same sort of revolution to france. but it was nearly impossible for