Street Chronicles: Walking and Writing
by Wang Guohua
About This Novel
As a first-tier city, Shenzhen is very different from Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Its grassroots, lively and youthful urban characteristics are well known. The author of this book, Wang Guohua, uses his personal experience and delicate writing style to write about the northerners' experiences when they first came to Shenzhen to work hard and their insights into living in Shenzhen. He also recorded the stories of Shenzhen's streets and alleys. It not only described the scenery, but also compared the foreign land and his hometown. He conducted more in-depth research and thinking on some well-known characteristics of Shenzhen and even the Lingnan region. As a work that reflects the personal geographical evolution of new immigrants in the city, this book shows the author's life in Shenzhen from his hometown to a foreign land. However, it does not stop at describing the appearance of a city, but presents a way of life and thinking through meticulous writing, which is full of emotional tension and the reality of details. This book won the fifth "Jiujiang Dragon" Prose Gold Award of the Guangdong Provincial Youwei Literature Award and the sixth "Shenzhen Top Ten Best Books". "I Don't Know the People in Tiegang Village" included in the book won the 8th Bing Xin Prose Award.
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