Bulgaria and China - back to the future?
Emma Jane Kirby meets members of a new Generation Protest - from students to doctors - in Sofia; Peter Day explores a Henan commune still run along Maoist lines
How can a country with a deeply centralised power structure and a communist past deal with the 21st century? Two stories from opposite ends of the earth try to find out. Emma Jane Kirby meets members of a new Generation Protest - from students to doctors - in Sofia, and hears why so many Bulgarians end up working abroad. And amid the hectic consumerism of today's China, Peter Day explores the rather quieter life of a Henan commune still run along Maoist lines.
Presenter: Pascale Harter. Producer: Polly Hope. Photo: Students during a protest in front of the Bulgarian parliament in Sofia, on November 20 2013. NIKOLAY DOYCHINOV/AFP/Getty Images.
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- Tue 26 Nov 2013 20:50GMT大象传媒 World Service Online