The Bund: Images and Legends
by Chen Danyan
About This Novel
The author uses the special perspective of "non-fiction" and "image" to tell the story of the past and present life of the Bund with Shanghai-style dense and delicate words, uncovering the mottled light and shadow of the Bund, a historical ship with rich connotations. In the author's writing, foreign expatriates who left the Bund by boat to escape the Chinese Civil War, Sam Tata, a foreign photographer who was born in Shanghai and photographed the Bund in 1949, and a mother who took her daughter to the site of the Shanghai General Assembly to pursue her childhood memories, claimed to "re-light the Bund" Li Jinghan, chairman of the Bund Three Federation, and the pidgin English that connected the commercial prosperity of the Bund during the concession period, the long night silence of the Bund in the 1950s, and the giant poster "Long Live the Great Unity of the Working People of the World" that appeared on the outer wall of the Friendship Store in 1966. The Lovers' Wall on the Bund in the 1970s and 1980s, the Bund renovation project in the 1990s... The dense details lay out the people and things that have had special experiences with the Bund, giving history a breath and warmth. There are more than 170 pictures in the book. The combination of visual expression and non-fiction narrative vividly reproduces the past and present legend of the Bund.
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