Title: Times Paradise
Description: It is a chronicle of China's amusement parks and a history of the development of China's amusement parks. The author has also illustrated the current situation and causes of why abandoned for the abandonment of China's amusement parks in a multimedia format, which also reveals the homogeneity and differences of China's amusement parks.
Some of the works in this book have already won numerous international awards and have been published in leading magazines and newspapers.
The author ZHOU Chengzhou started creating this project in 2018, and the author spent about 4-5 years travelling around most of the cities in the east, west, south, north and south of the Chinese land to create this project. He took a lot of photos along with a documentary film and also worked on literary forms of poetry and fairy tales.
In our age of diversified entertainment and culture shock, he hopes that these abandoned amusement parks can be valued and respected again, and that people will pay attention to the problem of wasted land resources.
Through these art forms, he tries to reconstruct the stereotypical image of amusement parks and explore some new possibilities.
Subjects: China, history, Amusement parks, Amusements, China
Places: China, Beijing (China), Zhengzhou (China), Changsha (Hunan Sheng, China), Lanzhou Shi (China), Huainan Shi (China)
Time periods: 1998-2022, 2018-, 2018-2022