Yongkang's Old Shadows: Fading Backdrops

Author: Lu Dunji
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: This is a travel culture book that vividly introduces the small city of Yongkang in Zhejiang with illustrations and text. Today, Yongkang has become a county-level city renowned worldwide for its hardware industry. It is precisely this rapid transformation that makes people suddenly realize the value of almost stagnant traditional treasures and makes them cherish the fading of an agricultural society. This impulse drives photographers to travel far to Yongkang, searching for traces of old swallows' nests. It also makes the author spend the entire day reflecting on the past, trying to paint scattered scrolls of the desolate days. Especially in this era of changing fortunes, the calm past may just soothe our restless hearts.