rural areas of ningxia etc

many chinese authors of this generation spent at least some of their life living in rural or village areas bc of the cultural revolution and the send down youth program. i know mo yan was from a peasant family, han shaogong and zhang chengzhi were sent down, shi shuqing, ma jinlian are from

Día LXXXIII ▪️ Galip Bay 💭📖 (Kara Kitap)

the work is travel literature, 刘子超’s 失落的卫星：深入中亚大陆的旅程 which id translate as “forgotten satellites: a journey through central asia”

central asia is such a fascinating region.. check out this passage from a chinese travel writer x.com/dylanlevikin...

I wanna go iran the hyrcanian forests are otherworldly beautiful

agreed. Its inspired by this polish poster of solaris but tbh i try to do much and i raised the gs to try to make them more legible but it ends up just being messy, and also the balance is strange… ill definitely go back to the drawing board for the title type at some point

(黑塔 (heita) is transliteration of herta but the characters themselves mean black & tower)