New Thoughts
- Flashing Lights and Crumbling Walls: Patches of Time Captured in Xianhua Lou’s Lenses
In the early autumn of Beijing in 2017, I explored many beautiful and picturesque old hutongs and as a southerner, I found it delighting to see greenish pine trees lining beside the traditional resident houses in the city. Embracing the scorching sun, the city of Beijing is coming off as both… Read more: Flashing Lights and Crumbling Walls: Patches of Time Captured in Xianhua Lou’s Lenses
Hubei Thoughts
Lou Hsienhua and his contemplative reflections on life in southern Hubei. Below are his essays.
- Flashing Lights and Crumbling Walls: Patches of Time Captured in Xianhua Lou’s Lenses
- Tamron 17-70mm f2.8 Di III-A VC RXD for Fujifilm lens review
- Days in Kowloon and New Territories
- Lantau Island and Bus Route 21
- Letter From the South: Quiet Days in Qianjiang, Hubei
- Film as Poetry: the Poetic Sensibilities of Paolo Sorrentino
- Filling Emptiness: On Reading Peter Hessler
- Letter from Wuhan: Life After Twenty-five, New Reflections
- Goodbye Wuhan
- Soul-searching Reflections on Culture, Resistance, and Our Voice
- Extraordinary, Critical Seeings
- This Tranquility, Long Missed
- Writing As Remembering
- Walking Along the Way Our Sun Goes
- Radical Authenticity: Looking at Abdellatif Kechiche’s Films
- A Life of One’s Own: Living the Dreams
- 回顾
- Myself These Years in Retrospect, A Notetaking
- Remembering the Unrememberable
- 秋日的夜
- Late Autumn Reflections
- Dreams in the Jianghan Plains
- Another Moon
- An Essay I Wrote
- Wandering through the Alleys
- 夏日的夜
- Somewhere
- Where We Live Now
- A Summer That Seemed like A Rebirth
- Going to The Mountains
- We Take Photographs in Order to Remember
- A Hometown of One’s Own
- Reminiscing about Hong Kong, a Memorandum
- Contemporary Occupations
- Wunderkind
- Slouching toward Wherever the Sun Shines
The author, Xianhua Lou, chronicles his experiences living in different places across China’s vast yet ever-changing landscape, from the tranquil corners of rural southern Hubei, and Hong Kong’s Lantau Island to the bustling streets of downtown Hong Kong and Wuhan. He is fond of photography and creative writing, and wishes to use this website as a tool to preserve the cherishing but fleeting moments that define our times.
His email addresses are: tommy@loulin.org and mail@photography.loulin.org