The Port and The Image: Documenting China’s Harbor Cities | Tencent GUYU Project
Zhu LanQing—Tencent GUYU Project
In 2016, curator He Yining invited eight visual artists to photograph seven major port cities: Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Dalian. The images the artists created varied between collage, video, and sound installation; each in its own visual language explores the life and history of these Chinese ports. The image above was taken by one of the artists, Zhu Lanqing, in Quanzhou Bay in Fujian, where the shipwreck of a Song-dynasty trading vessel was discovered in 1974. By examining the items found on the boat, Zhu tries to understand what Quanzhou was like during the Song dynasty.
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In 2016, curator He Yining invited eight visual artists to photograph seven major port cities: Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Dalian. The images the artists created varied between collage, video, and sound installation; each in its own visual language explores the life and history of these Chinese ports. The image above was taken by one of the artists, Zhu Lanqing, in Quanzhou Bay in Fujian, where the shipwreck of a Song-dynasty trading vessel was discovered in 1974. By examining the items found on the boat, Zhu tries to understand what Quanzhou was like during the Song dynasty.