"I struggled 18 years just to drink a cup of coffee with you"
Jason Weinberg at The Foreign Expert translates part of a New Weekly feature on rural issues over the past three decades:
In this way, the majority of today's city people have come from the countryside during the past 60 years. They majority of people in cities wearing bright clothes, their predecessors were all peasants.
The interesting thing is that most of them do not recognize or purposefully forget this ancestry. This causes people to remember the story of "changes" in the early days of liberation. What was the first problem of individualism cadres entering cities wanted to address? It was "change," country girls becoming city girls. A Passionate Life is the television version, the real life version's Shi Guanrong should have a country wife. Most cadres did not date, their parents already arranged marriage in the countryside. This country girl does not wear makeup, is not highly cultured, but can have children to honor her parents. She cannot seem like the city girl type and is easily cynical toward her impoverished marital situation.
