From Silence (Up and Down)

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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: From Silence Begins (Part 1), When I Started Touching the Historical Vicissitudes of Shanghai, Soothing Its Dying Relics, Gradually Understanding the Mystery It Holds, the Mysterious Shanghai City Slowly Fades from My Sights, Freeing Itself, as if Looking Down from the Sky at a Beach, Vaguely Revealing Its Transformations and Changes, Scenes of Past Events Like Cloudy Mist, This Is a Mythical, Miracle-creating City, a City Historically Activated by Outsiders, a Where Charm and Ugliness, Pride and Humiliation, Allure and Ambiguity Are Pushed to the Extreme. Setting aside Its Gilded Facade, Many Stories of Human Vicissitudes Float Like an Endless Ripple, in the Long River of History, a Lifetime Is Only a Moment. From Silence Begins (Part 2), the Appearance of Shanghai City Is Changing at an Unprecedented Speed, What Might Have Been Beautiful and Ancient Streets, Buildings, and Figures Yesterday Suddenly Disappears and Is Replaced with Something New Today. Amidst the Excitement, We Always Feel as If Something Is Lost Unconsciously, That Inherent Emotion, That Indelible Sentiment, Begins to Spread. The City Hasn’t Become More Beautiful as We Imagined; Under the Towering Skyscrapers of Steel, Concrete, and Glass, Everything Becomes Oppressive and Frantic. When Some Once-Glorious and Excellent Old Buildings Stand Solitarily Amidst the High-rises, Facing the Disappearance with Beautiful yet Heart-wrenching Despair, They Give Us a Heart-stirring, Unforgettable Beauty That Cannot Be Expressed in Words.