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"Downtown" is a collection of memoir-style narrative essays written by Professor Sudan of the Academy of Fine Arts, Tsinghua University. Taking the heavy industrial city of Taiyuan as the background, the author records his life experience from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, integrating personal growth, family development and social changes, which has profound literary and important historical archival value. Sudan leads us to re-examine our youth from an artist's perspective and see the absurdity behind reality and the tenderness behind cruelty. The selection of artwork and artistic treatment of memories in the book are fascinating. While recreating the lush years, the author also looks back at the past from an artist's professional perspective, rethinks space, city and other issues, and deepens readers' understanding of art and design; integrating time into space, there is a nostalgic beauty that corresponds to time and space. The book is equipped with works by many well-known contemporary artists, which contrast with the text and are quite interesting.