Dian----A Backpacker's Photographic Diary

Author: Yang Fei
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Publish Date: 2007-02-12
Features: Backpackers are an important branch of urban middle-class individuals. The author wrote this book primarily to reflect the psychology and life circumstances of this special group of travelers, including their travel life. In addition to the three main protagonists—Xiao Xia, a Shanghai traveler who has journeyed to Tibet N times, Azhi, who runs between terminal illness and despair, and Me, who runs in frustration—the book also features more than ten other backpackers. These include the Taiwanese "colorful traveler" Old Kang, the Shenzhen new traveler government official Old Guo, the doctor traveler Henan Doctor, the Beijing businessman traveler Old Qin, the unemployed Japanese traveler Little Jian Dai, and Inaba San, among others. It presents a relatively comprehensive sketch of the backpacker community. The author's writing style is primarily realistic, aiming to break through the false beauty and pseudo-tourism humanism. At the same time, the book also indirectly records the author's own painful (and happy) experiences in Tibet.