Old Photos (Issue 40)

Author: Feng Keli
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: The birth of photography has provided people with a vivid and stable reference for understanding history. Compared to written records, photographs are often more intuitive and certain. With the click of a camera shutter, a scene of history is thus frozen. Old Photos attempts to make changes in this regard, placing photographs at the center of observation and letting them speak for themselves. Sometimes, the words and meanings contained in a photograph go far beyond what a few simple historical conclusions can encompass. Only by acknowledging and listening to the words of photographs can history become vivid and lively. A photograph, a piece of past, Old Photos has been published for five years. Combining the previous collections into four volumes of a treasured edition is also a way to leave a historical record for Old Photos! Amidst the background music echoing memories, you can slowly savor every story, every photograph, every detail, and the experiences we have had or not had, the stories we have heard or not heard, allowing these mist-like memories to permeate time and linger in our hearts and ears. Old Photos offers readers not only the lives and scenes of the past, but also various perspectives. A photograph, a piece of past, although it narrates only the experience of one person or a family, seems insignificant, but at the same time, it inadvertently reflects the history of a nation, and even a country. A "pilgrimage" journey half a century ago, the protagonist's observations, thoughts, feelings, and reflections left precious traces for history.
Catalogue
Du Gao / Diary of Wu Zuoguang
Zhang Zhenglong / 1950: The Soviet Journey of Chinese Combat Heroes
Li Bai / My Diary and Photos of the Korean War
Shen Rong / Reminiscences of Comrade Liao Gong
Wu Jiadu / "Doctor General" Du Jianshi
Zhang Changhua / "Pearl of the Far East" — Anecdotes of Mrs. Wu Yijun and Lady Huang Huilan
Fan Jianchuan / Warzone Rose — Photos of Anti-Japanese Female Captives
He Qi / The Eight-Person Photo of 1929
He Shu / A List of Compensation for Confiscated Property
He Man / My Mother
Ding Ning / Auntie Sun
Zhao Yasan / Blue Shadows
Wei Desheng / The Path to Becoming a Soldier
Zhang Lin / Growing Up with "Little Eighth Route Army"
Zhuang Xueben / 1934: Notes on the Exploration of the Qiang and Rong Peoples (Part II)
Meng Jialin / The Other Side of Hong Kong
Jing Gutong / The Fate of Ordinary People in the Great Tide of the Times