An unexpected journey

Xu Zhiyuan has been traveling for fifteen years and has published the "Three Travel Books" for the first time
Explore the world, travel across China, and revisit forgotten history through strange encounters. In a weary era, see the observation, insight, and imagination of an idler. Book 1: From Heihe to Tengchong. Book 2: Calcutta, Cairo, and the happiest country. Book 3: Malacca, Honolulu, and Nagai Kafu's Asakusa. [Editor's Recommendation]
🌟Xu Zhiyuan's "Three Travel Books" from his 15-year journey
This series of books collects essays from Xu Zhiyuan's travels around the world and in China over the past fifteen years.
Volumes 1 and 2 are newly revised editions of his popular earlier works, "Strangers in My Motherland" and "A Wanderer's World," specially illustrated with photographs from his travels. Volume 3 is Xu Zhiyuan's first published travelogue. Due to the global pandemic, he unexpectedly stopped and traveled repeatedly in Hawaii, Japan, and Malaysia. It was this "accidental" journey that prophetically became the main theme of his fifteen-year wanderings—the unfamiliar, the chance encounters, the overturned, all of which provide a window into a new understanding of the world and history.
🌟As a loafer, revisiting forgotten history through strangeness and chance encounters. After fifteen years of walking, Xu Zhiyuan is still trying to dissect different cultural maps with his sharp and keen eyes. He is still tirelessly curious about, observing and understanding the lives of strangers, and has never lost his reflection on real history during his travels (nor has he lost his sincerity in the face of constant confusion). He even began to desire "accidents" - perhaps after walking for a long time, he finally discovered that it was this long-lasting uneasiness that once made him uncomfortable that is the source of all his strength.
🌟Special collection of precious scenes and conversations between Xu Zhiyuan in his early years when he was looking for Jia Zhangke, Yu Hua, Chen Danqing and others. The first volume specially includes precious text scenes and conversations between Xu Zhiyuan in his early years when he was looking for director Jia Zhangke, photographer Liu Xiangcheng, writer Yu Hua and painter Chen Danqing.
Unlike the face-to-face interviews of "13 Invitations," besides being able to hear the contemporary resonance and clash of ideas from more than a decade ago (a time that seems so foreign now, just a dozen years ago), each essay here is imbued with the author's own feelings as they were enveloped by the other person's movements, expressions during conversation, and even brief moments of silence. This granular inner dialogue, coupled with the author's constantly shifting perspectives as the conversation progresses, takes the reader back to the very scene, directly into the author's heart.
🌟Exquisite paperback, cutting-edge design, with Xu Zhiyuan's signature and colored endpapers. It is paperback-sized, light to read, easy to carry, and more suitable for reading while traveling or walking.
In line with the design concept of "unexpected," the sleeve features a minimalist typography that is both rational and restrained, symbolizing the critical and serious nature of the author's travel essays. The inner cover design is bold and cutting-edge: the three book titles overlap and overlap, rendered in a variety of Chinese characters, symbolizing the rich destinations, countless unexpected events, and the constant convergence and collision of new forces during these fifteen years of wandering. The three covers, when joined, form a complete image, just as these meaningful yet unrelated encounters together shape the wandering individual.
【Content Introduction】
This set of books is a collection of travel essays written by the author during his travels in China and around the world since 2010. In the first volume, the first part, the author traveled across China along the Aihui-Tengchong line, re-examining the real slices of contemporary Chinese society and the complex faces of history during his travels; in the second part, the author visited cultural scholars such as Jia Zhangke, Yu Hua, Liu Xiangcheng, and Chen Danqing during his travels, and launched a "Thirteen Invitations"-style conversation and questioning. In the second volume, the author's footprints spanned different cultural territories such as Bhutan, Eastern Europe, and India, aiming to present a more multicultural world map, thereby opening up more possibilities for looking at the relationship between oneself and the world; the third volume revolves around the author's stays and travels in Malaysia, Hawaii, and Japan in 2020. It not only outlines the different styles of various places under crisis and the real lives of ordinary people, but also discusses in depth how various places have responded to crises in history, uncovering the forgotten history behind them.

2024-02-01

云南人民出版社

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