A history of change in the words of those who lived it

For readers like Zhang Qin, born in the 1990s, it's news that in 1978 there was a movement against flared trousers.

Teachers would then catch the offenders and cut off the "extra" cloth in an effort to keep the young away from "bourgeois corruption", symbolized by such "weird" fashion.

And till March that year, quotes by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin, and Mao Zedong had to be printed in bold while published in newspapers.