Look Again

Floral-patterned blankets known throughout the country as "national bedcovers" recently became yet another hot topic online, again revealing a deep nostalgic connection to the mass-produced objects manufactured prior to China's economic opening-up period. These episodic discussions on kitsch artifacts made in the 1950s and 60s, which in the past covered the Man Kwong brand sheets, to the Seagull camera to Flying Pigeon bicycles, have come in three major waves.