Zhao Kun talked to three generations cheap handbags of a family in Beijing about their views of Over the past 60 years.

:In 1983, a 30-year-old man in Shanghai named Xu Changdong made up his mind to study in the United States at his own expense.

In the early 1980s, the enthusiasm for overseas study begun to gain great momentum among young people in China as the country's Louis Vuitton Bag opening to the outside revealed a brand new world abroad.

"At that time, China just began to open up, and the West remained unknown yet very appealing to us. All we knew about the outside world was from books or movies."

But just after Xu Changdong arrived in New York City, he found himself penniless.

"I took only 40 dollars along to America. When I landed at JFK International Airport, I found it cost some 30 dollars to get to my louis vuitton handbag school by taxi. I had no choice but to look for part-time job the next day."

In 1977, China restored the national college entrance exam, and a year later began to implement a policy of reform and opening up. That meant citizens were not only entitled to attend college in China but also given a chance to study abroad. (www.hXen.com)

Xu Changdong took advantage of both opportunities, at the cost of being the long separation from his wife and four-month-old son.

"In my first few years in America, I louis bags couldn't even look at the moon with dry eyes, because the moon symbolizes family reunion in Chinese culture. I could get over any difficulty at that time except my homesickness."

In 1987, Xu brought his wife and son, Xu Bang, to New York. Xu Bang spent his childhood and teenage years in the United States. He says he can still remember the huge changes in life when he was only four years old.

The first memory I remember of school LV Bags when I arrived in America was my first day at the kindergarten. I remember that I had my eyes closed, and I was crying the whole day. My mother had to take me around to every single class because I didn't understand anything."

Xu Bang's 96-year-old grandmother, Kong Baoding, experienced a similar situation about eight decades ago when she was a student at the Santa Maria School in colonized Shanghai.

"The first time I went to the middle school I saw a foreign teacher. I could not say anything because I learned English in Ningbo, and Louis Vuitton Bags we only (learned to) look (and read). We could not speak. I was very afraid of (the foreigners). But later on I got accustomed to them."

In the 1920s, learning English was a privilege for the wealthy in China. But after the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Russian became the most popular foreign language because of China's close diplomatic relations ADabria with the then Soviet Union.

"After 1949, more Russian language speakers were needed. As a full-time housewife, I decided to learn Russian by listening to the radio, and then I attended evening school. After that I began to work with the Foreign Language Department of East China Normal University and taught there for more than 30 years."

As Kong Baoding looks back on her Esnsitive plant century-long life, she says the most difficult time was during the 10-year Cultural Revolution that began in 1966.zyl

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