When David Moser came to China in 1987 he did not expect the challenges that lay ahead: he had been asked by his friend, the respected author Douglas R. Hofstadter, to help a team at Peking University to translate his Pulitzer Prize-winning bestseller “Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid” into Chinese. But when David arrived in Beijing he was handed a stack of handwritten translations instead of the printed documents he had expected, a monumental challenge for the scholar, who had only been studying Chinese for three years and was still struggling to correctly identify many characters.
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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