by Silvana Laura Redivo
Journalist, Correspondent and General Producer of Radio Program Clave China, Argentina
I grew up hearing about China.
My maternal grandfather, Gastón Redivo, a communist militant and later a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Argentina, put his freedom at stake by travelling to China in 1954 in the framework of “diplomacy between peoples” to personally get to know, in first person, the China of Mao Zedong’s Revolution with the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China.
The accounts of those early years of the Revolution and what could already be envisaged of its future caught my attention and my imagination. The mixture of its millenary culture and the politics of solidarity and cooperation would be the perfect conjunction for this new China.
Literature, knowledge of its geography and architecture (the combination of past and present is something that interests me a lot) through what is taught in schools, films that, although/ though produced in the United States, fed my desire and enthusiasm to get to know China.
I have a deep professional commitment to spreading the truth about China and I have been doing so for the last five years by producing a radio programme Clave China from Argentina, the only radio programme entirely dedicated to this purpose.
This country that is almost a continent opens its doors to me today and I know that it will surpass all my dreams and I will return to my country with its fragrances, beautiful landscapes, and its exquisite gastronomy and with the love of its people and help me to understand the reason why China has become the first country in the world, which, without hegemony, offers us to share a better future.
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