A Tomb Raider’s Tales from the Jianghu

Lin Dashan is a poor young man from Beishan Village, born in the mid-1980s. His story spans roughly 1998 to 2020, following him from adolescence into middle age.

In the early twenty-first century, as China’s urbanization accelerated and infrastructure development boomed, cultural relic smuggling and tomb raiding were quietly on the rise.