Solidify history

Author: Wen Plin
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: After flipping through the text and images of this book, one might ask—Is this the China we know? However, the purpose of this book is not to seek novelty or exoticize these subjects. These carefully selected "" still survive in their original form. It seems like a solidification of history, offering us a way to view reality with a more complex perspective and an attitude to face reality with a deeper mind. Is this the China we know? The legendary life and achievements of a famous Tibetan painter, the world's largest woodblock printing center, Dege Printing House, the earliest cluster of folk Western-style architecture in China, and the self-governing salt wells of Zigong—within an increasingly materialized, superficial, and restless China, the ways of life mentioned in this book seem like a solidification of history, enabling us to face reality with a more profound mindset.