crops and sell them. Allow people to have some private markets. Allow people to start taking over bust factories and run them for profit as long as they paid off the debts and paid the workers, things like that. The country really blossomed in a lot of ways. And then you came up to 1989. So essentially what happened was that this really worked very well. People got a whole lot richer. In many ways it was confusing, but it was also exciting. There was a lot of cultural opening, whereas in the past it had been impossible to listen to Western music or read Western newspapers or wear Western clothes. All of a sudden these things were coming in. There was experimental theater. There was what they used to call disco dance. There was art. There was all sorts of stuff. There was Qigong, which is a type of quasi-spiritual physical exercise that became very, very popular. And all of this led to a almost chaotic opening and to a concurrent demand for more rights, more political rights. And it (13/57)
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