Special Exhibition:Way Back Home: A Decade of Spring Festival Transport

01/27/2016

The opening ceremony of a new specialexhibition: Way Back Home: A Decade ofSpring Festival Transport was held at Qian Xuesen Library & Museum. This special exhibition will last tillFebruary 29th.

Reunion, the eternal theme of the SpringFestival, 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 reunionand 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 emotionof 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 urbanand rural areas.

Qian Xuesen Library & Museum director Mr.Qian Yongang made a speech in the opening ceremony. He noted that since 1980,the spring festival transport has become a unique social phenomenon. Spring Festival has always been an extremely significant occasion for Chinese and it carries all the emotional aspiration and attachment about reunion. For QianXuesen, the spring festival is also a special period of time, for he could use the holiday to learn about new things and scientific development. Qian Xuesen Library & Museum exhibits over 70 letters written in 16 spring festivals from 1984 to 1999, which reflects a unique festive way of the older generation of scientists. 



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