Chengdu under the Microscope
by Wang Di
About This Novel
A Sichuan cricket, far away from its hometown, has been singing songs for nearly 30 years "in the hearts of those who are nostalgic"; decades of hard work builds a charming microscopic world, and the century-old history of Sichuan tells the story of "another China"; it includes new unpublished interviews and dozens of precious illustrations, making it the first collection of mahjong research published; it has been revised five times by the author, and it took three years to complete the book, which is carefully selected and compiled. "Chengdu Under the Microscope" is the quintessence of 30 years of work by Professor Wang Di, a famous historian and representative figure in Chinese micro-history research. The book takes four special historical\u002F cultural phenomena in Sichuan: streets, teahouses, paoge, and mahjong as specific cases, focusing on hawkers, tea patrons, waiters, urn makers, Through various materials such as archives, oral histories, local chronicles, novels, surveys, news reports, pictures, etc., Ordinary citizens and other small figures are used to restore the memories of daily life in Sichuan, especially in Chengdu, and to draw a vivid picture of public life in the hinterland of China in detail. Through this kind of affectionate narrative history, people can truly penetrate into the "other China" that is different from coastal, central and other cities, and discover the vibrant life world of ordinary people and their tenacious cultural continuity.
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