Chen Danyan's Shanghai
by Chen Danyan
About This Novel
"Chen Danyan's Shanghai", 180,000 words, more than 150 pictures. The book is divided into four parts: "Not a hometown, but a hometown", "Continuous flow", "The street that never widens", and "Marine national trend, Shanghai and Shenzhen modernity: Annotation of Shanghai fashion from the 1960s to the 1990s". Chen Danyan uses non-fiction writing to tell the story of moving and her parents' eight boxes, the story of pidgin English and Shanghai compradors, the story of never widening the streets to protect the memory of the city, the story of the young climber who likes to climb high and overlook Shanghai, the story of Ke Ling's former residence, the story of Fu Lei's former residence, the story of He Youzhi and his illustrations of old Shanghai, author 14 The story of the geography teacher when he was young, the story of the first TOEFL test in mainland China in 1981, and the story of the old Shanghai brand that created and maintained the dignity of daily life for the people of Shanghai and even the whole of China... These daily lives, folk memories and personal histories during Shanghai's century-old changes are the past and present of Shanghai in the eyes of a writer with rigorous research and unique writing. As one of the most important docks of the treaty port city in the 19th century and now an international metropolis, Shanghai's origins, its ambitions, its history of being connected to the world, and its respect for daily life are all the reasons why we love it in Chen Danyan's writings. Because the feeling of loving Shanghai is the feeling of loving the world. The book uses varied perspectives, calm sensibility, dense and delicate text, and pictures and texts to present a lively and flowing Shanghai with unique spiritual character in front of readers. It can be said that "Chen Danyan's Shanghai" has become a unique cultural business card, conveying the unique charm of Shanghai city and culture to China and the world.
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