Video: Being poor in China during communism (in the 1960s)

[JMapleton]

John Chow traveled back to China to show the house he lived in as a child.

He lived there in the 1960s and you would think it was the 1760s from looking at it.

http://www.johnchow.com/visiti...he-house-i-grew-up-in/

 

[Flammable]

my cousin lives in that city, it's really not that bad. Anyways, most of rural China is comparable to that except that the inside is usually much better.

 

[JMapleton]

Originally posted by: Flammable
my cousin lives in that city, it's really not that bad. Anyways, most of rural China is comparable to that except that the inside is usually much better.

Punyu or Guangzhou?

 

[zoiks]

Originally posted by: Flammable
my cousin lives in that city, it's really not that bad. Anyways, most of rural China is comparable to that except that the inside is usually much better.

Is he flammable too?

 

[ghostman]

It doesn't look so bad, actually. When I visited my mother's village in China several years ago, it looked very very similar to that. The doors were planks of wood and the key was one of those 6-inch long keys you see in movies set in historic times. But they had electricity, a telephone, TV. Water was usually fetched in pails, but the neighboring house had running water. Until recently, my grandmother used to still live there.