Forty years ago Nixon and Mao opened up trade relations with China with Ping Pong teams breaking the ice. Five years later I was visiting China twice a year as a buyer at the Canton fair, held in Guangzhou, a city to which we were restricted. It was exotic to meet the old China hands, such as the Canadians who have been trading with China for 20 years. Canadians had maintained relations with China after the revolution.
That was 35 Years ago. Berkeley is putting together an exhibition of some poster from that time, and here are a few from 1977, when I first went. There is no way to quite explain what it was like back then. Different. These posters only capture the ideal. But then so do political conventions.
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That was 35 Years ago. Berkeley is putting together an exhibition of some poster from that time, and here are a few from 1977, when I first went. There is no way to quite explain what it was like back then. Different. These posters only capture the ideal. But then so do political conventions.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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