Glazed Tire

After the Gengzi Incident in 1901, the Tianjin concession area was an era of fierce collision between old and new ideas. The spiers of Western churches and the cornices of Chinese teahouses intersect in the mist, rickshaws run over the gravel roads in the concession area, and the tram tracks glow coldly in the morning sun. The confrontation between the constraints of feudal ethics and women's awakening. The footsteps of three-inch golden lotuses and Western-style leather shoes intertwined in the green brick alleys. The recitation of English poetry from the church girls' school and the recitation of "The Commandments of Women" in the deep house compound formed a wonderful polyphony. The concession area became a hotbed of new ideas. The underground reading club organized by female students hid the magazine "New Youth". The medicine drying field in the backyard of the drug store became a rehearsal venue for progressive dramas. The freighters anchored at the Haihe River dock brought progressive books from all over the world.