Regressive Set
by Chen Danqing
About This Novel
"Collection of Regression" is a collection of some of Chen Danqing's writings in the five years since he returned to China. There are more than 30 articles on topics such as painting, video, city, and education. It can also be understood as a reflection and questioning of various "progress views" in the field of Chinese humanities and art over the past century. Perhaps due to his long years of painting training, Chen Danqing's writing is keen in observation, details are particularly vivid, and he often has witty remarks. Book reviewer Huang Jiwei said: "Although Chen Danqing is a painter, many essayists cannot write words like his. In addition, although the readers are not him himself, the 'estrangement' and 'helplessness' between culture and context in this Turtle School's writings, and even the mentality of 'rejection and welcome' are not difficult for everyone to empathize with." In "Retrograde Collection", a considerable amount of space is devoted to Chen Danqing's lament about today's urban construction. Large-scale urban construction has ruthlessly destroyed the city's original cultural ecology and historical memory, causing the artist Chen Danqing to "cry" with heart-broken heart: "The Jiangnan water town is gone."
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