Move around changing Beijing through the 20th century: start with memories of Old Peking, where people lived in compounds with a big courtyard and fetched water from communal wells. Then enter the world of an illicit love affair in 'Manufacturer of Tenderness' set in the Beijing of the 1930s, where ideas about 'free love' were being spread. And finally end in the Beijing of the 1980s where the first calls for the respect of the individual were launched against the backdrop of decades of rule by Big Brother.