Ancient Town Fengjing
Canal-laced water town of Ming and Qing lanes, stone bridges and a cartoonist's ancestral museum.
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This guide to Ancient Town Fengjing follows cartoonist Ding Cong, who grew up sketching biting caricatures on these canal streets before a 1957 essay defending editorial independence got him branded a rightist. It traces the two decades of hard labor and Cultural Revolution imprisonment that followed, and the secret sketches he kept making even while locked away from his own family. Listen as you walk the stone-bridged lanes where a teenager once sold his first cartoons under a pen name.
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