Way Back Home: A Decade of Spring Festival Transport

2016年12月30日

Time: January 27th-February 29th 2016

Place: Temporary Exhibition Hall

Reunion, the eternal theme of the Spring Festival, is a shared wish for all Chinese people. China’s spring festival transport is as epic as a human migration can be. From 1980 to 2010, the flowing population rose from one hundred million to two billion. This huge crowd surged over the vast 9.6 million square meters of land. The moving Chinese rushed between working in the cities and going home for the holiday with unbelievable patience and tenacity. “Spring festival” carries full of nostalgia, leading people to reunion and celebration, with tired but cheerful paces.

As a public venue, Qian Xuesen Library & Museum always keeps to its humane care and educational mission and introduces the special photographic exhibition: Way Back Home: A Decade of Spring Festival Transport, which intends to recapture the moments and emotion of their journey. Mr. Deng Bo, the famous documentary photographer, has spent the last decade focusing his lens on migrant workers’ journey and recording their unique stories. These photographs have become valuable historical information and social witnesses to not only transportation issues, but also population issues, development problems, and regional disparities between urban and rural areas.