Zhongjie: Silk Shops, Photographs and Recreated Lanes
Silk shops, a photographic studio and recreated lanes expose several different kinds of history on one commercial street.
Zhongjie’s silk shops, photographic studios and other named buildings preserve traces of earlier ways of shopping. Their facades have also been repaired and reworked. Silk merchants, photographers and later retailers have occupied a streetscape repeatedly adapted to new uses.
Silk shops, a photographic studio and recreated lanes expose several different kinds of history on one commercial street.