ON a drizzly day 26 years ago, Man Kaijun, Xue Yufeng, Xu Wenjing and around 100 other middle school graduates lined up in a courtyard near Huashi Street in southern Beijing. This group became the first brach of worke...ON a drizzly day 26 years ago, Man Kaijun, Xue Yufeng, Xu Wenjing and around 100 other middle school graduates lined up in a courtyard near Huashi Street in southern Beijing. This group became the first brach of workers at the Beijing Silk Flower Factory, then a workshop-like factory.展开更多
I was not a flower lover when I was a little girl. Instead, I spent my days mixing with the "mischievous" boys in the neighborhood; my favorite toys were wooden sticks which I imagined to be guns. I guess pa...I was not a flower lover when I was a little girl. Instead, I spent my days mixing with the "mischievous" boys in the neighborhood; my favorite toys were wooden sticks which I imagined to be guns. I guess part of the reason for my unusual behavior goes to the influence of my father serving in the army and China was undergoing the Cultural Revolution. Then all things beyond bare necessity were categorized as bourgeois extravagance. How could a prole-tariat offspring come to love flowers,展开更多
IN the midst of a winter storm flowers still bloom in Beijing. In the greenhouses of Beijing Scriven Flower Co. Ltd., roses and lilies comtrast sharply with the bare fields and trees of early spring. Located 20 Km awa...IN the midst of a winter storm flowers still bloom in Beijing. In the greenhouses of Beijing Scriven Flower Co. Ltd., roses and lilies comtrast sharply with the bare fields and trees of early spring. Located 20 Km away in Xiaobailou Village, Daxing County, in suburban Beijing, the greenhouses were built in 1992 and have been展开更多
文摘ON a drizzly day 26 years ago, Man Kaijun, Xue Yufeng, Xu Wenjing and around 100 other middle school graduates lined up in a courtyard near Huashi Street in southern Beijing. This group became the first brach of workers at the Beijing Silk Flower Factory, then a workshop-like factory.
文摘I was not a flower lover when I was a little girl. Instead, I spent my days mixing with the "mischievous" boys in the neighborhood; my favorite toys were wooden sticks which I imagined to be guns. I guess part of the reason for my unusual behavior goes to the influence of my father serving in the army and China was undergoing the Cultural Revolution. Then all things beyond bare necessity were categorized as bourgeois extravagance. How could a prole-tariat offspring come to love flowers,
文摘IN the midst of a winter storm flowers still bloom in Beijing. In the greenhouses of Beijing Scriven Flower Co. Ltd., roses and lilies comtrast sharply with the bare fields and trees of early spring. Located 20 Km away in Xiaobailou Village, Daxing County, in suburban Beijing, the greenhouses were built in 1992 and have been
