CHINESE MEAT MARKET THEN (YAN'AN 1981) II; THE FOOD MARKET NOW

MARKETING FOOD 

IN CHINA 

Then & Now 

MEAT FOR SALE IN THE 

MARKET IN YAN'AN, CHINA, 

IN 1981 

(Second of two photographs; 

the first, close up, here) 

A Washington Post article about changes in the Chinese diet "Reshaping World Markets" (though most of the current specifics concern the U.S. soybean market) can be found here. 

Included is the story of Liu Shuwen, who went "from street chicken vendor to poultry industrialist."  He is said to have grown up "incubating chicks under his bed," and to have left "the countryside" (unspecified) to come to Beijing thirty years ago, about the time of the photograph above.