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From Our Own Correspondent: Experiencing China

Experiencing China

23/08/2014

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Experiencing China

Politics, Maoist history and the attitudes of Chinese tourists to Europe

Our correspondents give their different takes on life in China. We explore politics, Maoist history and the attitudes of Chinese tourists to Europe.

Carrie Gracie explores how Beijing has changed since the 1980s when she first worked there.

Michael Bristow spends the day with a group of Chinese tourists as they embark on a whistle-stop trip around Europe.

Neal Razzell struggles to persuade a Chinese and a Japanese journalist to be best friends when they make a documentary together. It seems the animosity between the two countries dating back to the Second World War is not so easily forgotten.

Peter Day visits a commune in Henan where time has stood still and faith in Chairman Mao is still intact.

Josephine McDermott attends a Chinese wedding where she takes part in traditional 'love tests' and introduces a Chinese uncle to the Bee Gees and disco dancing. 

Presenter: Owen Bennett Jones 
Producer: Laura Gray

Picture: Beijing skyline, Credit: Feng Li/Getty Images

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