It’s possible to identify another period that might surpass the 1980s as China’s most open: a 10-year stretch beginning around the turn of this century, when a rich debate erupted over what lay ahead. As in the past, many of those speaking out were establishment intellectuals who were careful not to challenge too directly the Communist Party’s right to rule but took advantage
The first time I rode a public bus in China, in 1985, a young woman came up to me and ran her hand up and down my arm to feel the body hair. Foreigners were like rare animals then: precious, strange, probably dangerous. Surveillance was constant and labor-intensive. At the Beijing Friendship Hotel, there were staff assigned to go through the trash, read any diaries or letters
the cnn original series the 2000s is brought to you by volvo. who could have possibly guessed? a show about a bunch of backstabbing people with body odor on an island off borneo would become the hit of the summer. survivor was really the first truly competitive format. go! i started to really understand what the show was going to be about the first 20 minutes into day one. we ll see what we ve got. there might be a blowtorch in there. we need a bathroom. are you guys all done talking? richard hatch was sitting in a tree, lecturing about what they should do as their group. nobody is working toward a particular goal. not the silly little stuff about who is going to sleep where. what are we going to do but why are we here. underneath him was a woman who was a truck driver. the corporate world ain t going to work in the bush. that was the show. he walked around naked quite a bit. i think it probably bugged some of the guys.
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new ways to listen. in a new episode of the 2000s we take a look at this shifting musical landscape and how it changed how a generation discovered artists. by the mid-2000s, music labels realized that youtube, myspace, and file sharing software was the way people were discovering new music. so what do you do? you get all of the people that you ve heard online together in one act and you charge $130 to see it. and this proved to be a very successful model. waking up feeling good the one that really set it off was b onnaroo and then coachella. the 2000s i want my mp3 airs tomorrow night, 9:00 eastern on cnn. thanks so much for being with me today. the news continues with ana cabrera right after this. tal?