日志
The Breath of Nights
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The fast change is threatening Chinese traditions and national culture. The young genaration live a style different from their ancestors'. They prefer counter-tradition way and advocating freedom and personality. They are experiencing unlimited possibilities in alternative way through the mixture of value, money, sensibility and wants. Shenzhen, China's coastal city, a migration city with main population of the young, shows particularly the above characteristics. In the early 1979, Shenzhen was only a small frontier town with no more than 20 thousands population. At present, it has developed into a metropolitan with 13 million population. Its GDP per capita reaches the top among China's most developed cities. Shenzhen was called "a city emerged overnight". This group of photographs recorded the young people's night lives and their passional stories breaking away from trantional bondages and spiritial pressures in the 25 year-old city. These young migrants came from rural areas and urban cities of interior China. They used to be labors, teachers, artists, writers, advertising practitioners etc.. When night comes, they gather in their favourite entertainment sites, dancing with music, anaesthetized with alcohol. They express their emotions and wants by doing these alike a huge flying disk revolving in the midnight sky, with boundless...
