Shanghai Private Map

Author: Zhou Peihong
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This is a complete book structured in the form of geographical displacement, intertwining memory, stories, the fate of characters, ways of emotion, and urban development. It narrates Shanghai from a personal perspective, exploring the relationship between the individual, the city, history, and the world. The 34 articles are relatively independent yet interconnected and coherent. Each title is related to a location or a journey. The book is approximately 200,000 words in length, written in the genre of prose, with some elements of fiction. Reading it gives a sense of wandering through Shanghai in a dreamlike state.