“Everything Old Is Becoming New”: Five Mexican Journalists and China’s Modernization

Abstract

The work presents three themes that were recorded and transmitted by Mexican journalists on their respective trips to communist China. In an era where the written story played a central role in the transmission of experiences, those who managed to witness a set of unique events, used to leave a record of what they saw and heard. The various journalist-travelers who traveled the world to learn about the experience of the Chinese revolution, found modernization processes in progress. The text will address the implications of how they recounted this process of modernization by considering the conception of time based on the idea of the “east wind” and the role of voluntarism in the domination of nature.