1949  many things needed to be done1950s  chinese tunic suit replaced the westem-style clothes and chi-pao  fashionable "lenin coat"  girls keen on bib overall  little swallow wearing color clothes: "platye"  food coupon starts the coupon era  residence booklet to control influxes into the urban area  free public eateries  dusky and greasy "row houses"  water supply station in shanghai lanes  walking-based transportation  "dangdang bus" reminds pedestrians to keep away from cars with bells  cartoon dance needs a "big brother"  a divorce is hereby granted as mediation failed  rural women have a bath in the bathhouse for the first time  transferring shanghai haircutters to open silian in beijing  national steelmaking movement  wronged sparrow  women were bashful when doing radio calisthenics  merit students  the first national salary reform1960s  the food substitute movement: man-made meat essence and  appeasing hunger with chlorella  lying-in women provided with a lump sum subsidy of 1 kg of eggs  quota supply of vegetable, shallot, ginger and garlic  umbrella and alarm clocks were also supplied with coupon  "three years in new, three years in old and three years in patched"  no white buttons for white suit in beijing  red guard hairstyle  state council cuts sales of lipstick in china  renovating fangua lane  nine-storey anhua building nicknamed "high-ranking official building"  from honeycomb briquette to gas tank  ����1970s1980s1990s21st century