The Struggle of Chinese Journalists in the Reform Era . She lives in New York. In China's ancient capital, every other street is a bazaar. Vegetable stands on narrow lanes display a summer's bounty of fresh corn, duck eggs, shiny purple eggplants, and hot peppers.
Watermelons overflow from straw baskets and eels squirm in shallow plastic tubs.
You can have a bike flat fixed, your hair cut, or your fortune told in the open-air markets of Beijing. Here material wants are not only satisfied, they are born. Ever since Deng Xiaoping's 1992 call for renewed economic reform, making money has been a patriotic imperative. At the most obvious level, ideology has been recycled as pop. Kids wear People's Liberation Army caps and Atlanta Braves jerseys.