Скачать или смотреть Michael Kahn Ackermann | People were told foreigners were spies

When Michael Kahn-Ackermann arrived at Peking University 北大 in 1975 his Chinese co-students naturally assumed all foreigners were likely to be spies. "That's just what people were told in those days," he recounts. Later, he became the founding director of the Goethe Institute in Beijing, translated important works of Chinese Literature and served as the China representative of the Mercator Foundation in China.

Living History: Stories from the Opening of China is a series of documentary interviews with Chinese, Americans and others about the experiences they had in the period after the reopening of China under Deng Xiaoping in 1979. These crucial early years and the people-to-people exchanges made during this time are a period whose memory we want to preserve with this series. Many of the stories we are recording here have never before been documented. If you, too have a story from this time that you would like to tell us please do get in touch with us at [email protected] – we are continuously filming more interviews.