The Last Monkey Charmer
by Ma Hongjie
About This Novel
Use real images and words to record a disappearing folk China! The story of China's last generation of folk monkey performers traveling around the world! "China National Geographic" photographers have been following and recording for nearly two decades! Beginning in 2002, China National Geographic reporter Ma Hongjie went deep into the Xinye monkey community, following them to board trains and sleep on the streets, recording their daily ups and downs and changes in fate. The story of the Monkey Charmer is like an aspect of Chinese society. Their era is an era that we have all experienced together. Ma Hongjie used his twenty-year record to testify for us that not long ago, some people lived like this. In the author's lens and text, monkeys and people eat from the same pot, sleep in the same bed, become lifelong companions, travel around the world, make money to support their families, monkeys and people raise their own children, live together, grow old together, and disappear together in this era.
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