日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

USEUROPEAFRICAASIA 中文雙語Fran?ais
China
Home / China / Society

Bookstore opens new page on island heritage

Xinhua | Updated: 2017-07-17 07:30

Bookstore opens new page on island heritage

Readers browse a bookstore on Gulangyu Island, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Xiamen, Fujian province. Wang Dongming/For China Daily

Su Xiaodong calls his bookstore on Gulangyu Island a kind of wormhole.

"A wormhole connects different times and spaces. That's exactly what I want to do: Connect the island with its beautiful past," said Su, from the city of Xiamen, in Fujian province.

Su, 47, traveled to many countries before he decided to set up the bookstore last summer. "The history and culture here is very distinct," he said.

Gulangyu, off the coast of Xiamen, is famous for its varied architecture and multicultural history and was included on the UNESCO World Heritage list on July 8.

The island is dotted with East-meets-West style residences built by overseas Chinese elites who returned to the island in the early 20th century.

Su rents Haitian Pavilion, a historic building, as his bookstore and renovated the interior to look like it did in the early 20th century.

"It was the best time on Gulangyu, quiet and with people from different cultures living in an international community peacefully," Su said.

Today, Gulangyu receives more than 10 million visitors per year, and many boutique shops, restaurants and hotels have sprung up in recent years. Su said he wants the bookstore to be a space where people can escape commercialism, and explore the island's culture in a historic setting.

His store has collected more than 3,000 books about Gulangyu, and he has an ongoing project searching for more worldwide.

"Preserving cultural heritage is not only about protecting the buildings," Su said. "It's also about the memories of these buildings and recreating the experience for modern people, so they might better understand a certain place or time."

Su believes art is one way for people to go beyond the here and now and access a "wormhole" that brings them to the past or future.

In November, his bookstore exhibited works of young artists from 16 countries who had stayed in Gulangyu for two months creating art.

Inspired by the exhibition, Su tapped into the island's history as an international settlement by inviting artists from the 13 countries that had set up consulates on Gulangyu in the middle of the 19th century, to stay and create art on the island.

"Their stories and work salute history and can bring fresh blood to the culture on Gulangyu," Su said.

Editor's picks
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263

Registration Number: 130349
FOLLOW US
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 黄色av大全 | 涩涩网站在线观看 | 日韩欧美爱爱 | 黄色一级免费片 | 四虎在线视频 | av国产免费| 北条麻妃一级片 | 一区二区不卡视频在线观看 | 日韩欧美日韩 | 欧美做受高潮中文字幕 | 日韩视频在线观看一区二区 | 精品一区av | 在线视频日本 | 色综合免费视频 | 日本aⅴ在线观看 | h视频网站在线观看 | 国产精品久久久国产盗摄 | 欧美日韩一区二区在线观看 | 亚洲经典av | av片在线免费看 | 美女国产一区 | 自拍三级 | 精品无人国产偷自产在线 | www.色网站 | 国产在线激情视频 | 国产精品国产一区二区三区四区 | 国产69久久精品成人看 | 91少妇| 欧美日韩一区精品 | 日韩视频在线一区二区 | 色综合久久久久 | 亚洲成人免费看 | 亚洲图色av | 在线播放h | 日韩成人免费在线视频 | 亚洲午夜av久久乱码 | 国产精品久久久久久久久久久久 | 亚洲日日日 | 最新日本中文字幕 | 男人午夜视频 | 欧美精品一二区 |