LOOKING FOR WANG WEI

In spring 2015, journalist Frank Quilitzsch returns to China to revisit the places and facilities where he oncw taught German to a handful of students. Shortly after his arrival in China, the memories collide with the bizarre Chinese present. Back then, in 1989, the student uprising in Tiananmen Square had just been defeated, the society was paralyzed, and there were almost only bicycles on the roads. Now the economy is booming, skyscrapers shoot up into the sky and superfast express trains run between the megacities.