The outline of the story from my Prague trip:
During my trip to Prague, I am so interested in local people’s ordinary life. My most of interviews are surrounding the center.
1, why I am interested in the topic:
Gowning up in China, I’ve known some not long ago history about Czech, which
are about the transformation from a socialism country to a capitalism country more or less. In 1968, Soviet Union invaded the country in order to stop Prague
Spring reform. Then during 1968-1989, Czech was in Communist Era.
After 1989, the country started the Velvet revolution, it marked the
prelude to democracy of the country.
2004, Czech joined the EU and in the end of last year, Czech was invovled in Schengen Visa, these series transformation bring what kind of change in ordinary people’s life? That’s my motivation.
2, I interviewed three people, one is a student in History major, from Charles University. She told me her attitudes towards democracy and towards China’s political system as well. The other woman told me something about the local real estate market. When in socialism period, people were guaranteed with houses, how do people deal with their house under capitalistic circumstance? The situation in Prague is very similar to that of in China now. The third person is a man who comes from UK and now has been living in Prague more than 10 years. His observation about the city is very interesting.
3, I went to some shopping malls and local supermarkets in order to know the price level in Prague. What a surprise is that the price level in Prague is even cheaper than that of in Beijing or Shanghai. I will raise some example to illustrate.
