Brian Linden was cleaning carpets in Chicago in 1983 when a client asked him to put a flag pin into China on a map of the world. Unable to find it, he tells us how this was the first time he thought about China. He soon moved to China to teach English and had a front place to history as a cameraman with CBS News in Beijing, with whom he even met then-president Deng Xiaoping. In this video he tells us the mesmerizing story of showing medical students in Beijing their first American film, the Steven Spielberg epic “Raiders of the Lost Ark” starring Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones and recalls his eighteen arrests while traveling the remotest parts of China back when that was still very difficult for foreigners.
Living History: Stories from the Opening of China is our new series of documentary interviews with Chinese, Americans and others about the experiences they had in the period between the reopening of China under Deng Xiaoping in 1979 and the Shanghai Expo in 2010. These crucial 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 for the public. If you, too have a story from this time that you would like to tell us please do get in touch with us at chris@memostothefuture.com - we are continuously filming more interviews.
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