EAN: 9783735609816

XU YONG

Xu Yong (b. 1954  Shanghai) was one of the first photographers to focus on everyday life in
modern China  free from political romanticization or ideological whitewashing. In HUTONG 101
PHOTOS  he traces the history of the traditional residential district of Beijing  with its
centuries-old buildings complete with rear courtyards and myriad narrow alleyways  the
"Hutongs." Many of these neighborhoods have since fallen victim to radical redevelopment and
have been demolished. Xu Yong's black-and-white images dating from 1989 bear witness to the
rise and fall  the heyday and the decline of the Hutongs against the backdrop of the rapid
societal change in China that followed the end of the Qing Dynasty. In this milestone of
Chinese photography  which is now finally being published as a new edition in book form  Xu
Yong has created an elegiac tribute to the old alleyways of Beijing  revealing both their
poetic beauty and the sadness surrounding their demise.

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