Love City - Phoenix Travel New Concept Reader

Author: Kuang Lili
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: As a new generation author of the 1980s, Kuang Lili published a long titled Youth's Classmates at the age of 18. After graduating from university, she studied and worked in Shanghai and Guangzhou, experiencing China's fashionable city life. One day, Kuang Lili's footsteps knocked on the stone-paved streets of Fenghuang in western Hunan, immersing herself in the words of Mr. Shen Congwen, whom she had admired since childhood. Starting with a train ticket from "Guangzhou—Jishou," she embarked on her journey, narration, and presentation. She carried a notebook, a camera around her neck, and most importantly, a keen sensitivity for spiritual experiences and an aesthetic taste nurtured by beautiful reading. The words of Shen Congwen and Huang Yongyu were indeed the rhythm and melody of her journey, while the exquisite words of Einstein, Milosz, H?lderlin, and Gasscié Barthes about walking in nature were carried to her ears and brow by the mountain wind. The city walls, stone-paved old streets, Tuo River, and Rainbow Bridges were endless, while the bars, inns, tie-dye shops, specialty stores, and craft workshops were full of charm. The ginger sugar, red huckleberries placed in tung leaves, ferns and bamboo shoots gathered from the mountains, and the silver bracelets, indigo-dyed embroidered fabrics, and Miao villages in the river breeze—all were vivid and colorful. With her lens and words, Kuang Lili captured the natural scenery before her, reflected on the new and fashionable aspects hidden in tradition, and discovered the emotions and poetry in ordinary life. She led young lives into nature, into tradition, and into the depths of beauty, a wonderful educational approach that has long been lost in modern times. Through Love City, Kuang Lili shows such a beautiful path: let free and unrestrained walking become a journey of beauty and joy, to love a city, to understand a city, and to understand love even more! To enter the history, tradition, and culture of a city effortlessly and naturally will also make one love the people and life both within and beyond the city. Perhaps, starting with a book like this, some lucky young people will discover and embark on a beautiful path of self-education.