Growing Up with Food: Personal Life Archive · Chen Wen

Author: Chen Wen
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: This book breaks through the traditional layout patterns of conventional books in its design philosophy. Through physical graphics such as text, photographs, memorabilia, and original documents, it replicates the original state of time for readers, interpreting the stage value of finite individual lives within the infinite historical timeline. It reminds people that as long as they live with heart, they can experience some truths and meanings of life while it is still alive. This book is not a traditional personal memoir. The author is an ordinary person who tells the shining moments in their memories by recording the details of daily life and the growth of their inner self in a straightforward manner. By recalling numerous characters and events from ordinary life, it authentically restores the original ecological state of the era. This form of autobiography is known as oral history in Western historiography. In China, however, such work has rarely been undertaken by ordinary people. Eating My Way Through Childhood is a pioneering version of Chinese personal oral history.