Modern Chinese fashion really took shape only when global products and brands became more powerful commodities in the market. I did not visit China until 2007, but I imagined its fashion to be a homogenous landscape with only the bravest and the richest starting to experiment with dressing for self-expression.
I had one of my early fashion experiences watching a Chinese movie in a small cinema back in my hometown in Anhui province 27 years ago.
One of Bian Jiang's most vivid memories of Beijing in the 1980s was the long queues of people, waiting in the late autumn chilly wind, to buy large amounts of cabbages and sweet potatoes to take home.
Sept 30, 1980: Beijinger Liu Guixian and her husband open Yue Bin Restaurant in Cuihua Hutong in Beijing, the first privately-run restaurant in China.
The way to a man's heart is certainly through his stomach. I don't know about women, but if a city wants to keep her man, she needs to feed him well.
As food is at the core of culture and lifestyle, gastronomy in China is as diversified as its 56 ethnic groups, 23 provinces, four municipalities, five autonomous regions and two special administrative regions, drawing on a 5,000-year-old heritage.
Qingdao is full of vitality, romance and the spirit of innovation
Four music festivals and a marathon concert made this year's May Day holiday the busiest ever for Beijing's pop and rock fans. Each of the events - Midi Festival, Strawberry Festival, China Music Valley Festival, Chaoyang International Pop Festival and the Rock Records 30th Anniversary Concert ?featured dozens of acts and drew thousands of people.
1984-85: Mainland singers release cassettes of cover songs from Taiwan, Hong Kong and Western countries.
When I started organizing rock concerts in Beijing in the late 1980s, the main protagonists of the city's rock scene, including their equipment, could be easily packed onto one bus.
On May 13, Bob Dylan wrote to fans on his website about his April gig in Beijing: "If anybody wants to check with any of the concert-goers they will see that it was mostly young Chinese people that came."
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