In Creative Writing Program Qianjiang (CWPQ), Xianhua Lou chronicles his experiences living in different places across China’s vast yet ever-changing landscape, from the tranquil corners of Qianjiang, a small city in Hubei to the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong’s historic streets. He writes for the purpose of recording usually overlooked moments that deserve attention.
Creative Writing in Qianjiang
Reading vivid recollections by Lou Xianhua whose artistic sensibility, as he puts it, shaped his relationship with those tolerant, supportive of what he imagines his specific cultural identity is.
Interpreting Life
“Photography itself is like a partially immortalized and visualized bit of time, which as a collective concept is itself hardly an accurate conceptualization; and if taken in the light of personal significance, it’s also an concept invented for the societal convenience as a whole in the use of reinforcing a socio-historical consciousness to us.”
-By Xianhua Lou, “Myself These Years in Retrospect, A Notetaking”, in 2020.
The Essays on Life in Qianjiang, Hubei etc.
In some other ways, Qianjiang local cuisine offers comfort and peace, and in other corners of the world we explore the mountainous ways of living
These are the places where I have occasionally or long-termly resided: Hongkong, Qianjiang of Hubei, Wuhan, Shenzhen, Eastern China…the list extends as I search for a new inspiration to find meanings in natural writing and living. the story continues
Hong Kong Diary
It’s been three months since I came to Hong Kong to attend my postgraduate study at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. I took Hong Kong’s rail transit MRT from Tai Wei to Hung Hom as part…
Film as Poetry: the Poetic Sensibilities of Paolo Sorrentino
Since when have filmgoers started to expect something truly artistic rather than adopted for popular interests to watch? Perhaps not long after the ongoing artistic revolution that merits personal sensibilities rather than serving a bigger goal…
Filling Emptiness: On Reading Peter Hessler
Overall, one may conclude, from the popularity in China of Peter Hessler’s books even in the translated versions—mostly sold in the category of travel writing—that there is such a thing universally existed as a desire for…
「夏日」 Summertime Notes by Xianhua Lou
走过回忆的街道 ：南湖，武汉
学校的建筑，增加了几栋，但仍几乎与曾经无异，风景旧曾谙。这夏日一般的十月，我走过玻璃的幕墙边，望着镜中的倒影，体重较几年前增加了，神色间，似乎增加了几许惘然。好似这么许多年来，这南湖边，只有我体会了岁月的力量。
此方与远方：楚地的日夜
同其他小城一样，这里的日夜仿佛没有两样，静静的。春去夏至，秋去冬来，只有落下的水杉针叶述说着变迁的故事。
回顾
对于武汉，东湖最令我印象深刻，是适合散步的地方，风景优美，那晚回访，东湖却不复往昔的宁静，也许是宣传的多了，被许多人发现了它的美，它的宁静被打扰了，从此此处变成了一片喧嚣。
Creative Writing Project
Letter from Wuhan: Life After Twenty, Some Words to Say
If, also, I say I started to care even less about news headlines, outraging geopolitical comments, editorials, apparent misinformation of almost everything crucial for our social stability, a lot of disbelief may come around because, as a man, no one would appear able to resist the attraction of politics, perhaps the source of all powers.…
Traveling to Faraway Land, then, Farewell to It
Leafing through the pages of certain geography magazines full of picturesque attractions, I saw, in pictures, Tianshan mountain, Qilian mountains, and the Taklamakan Desert in the northwestern part of China.
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