| As a pioneer of the South China counterculture, Yang Yong’s "Cruel Diary of Youth" series captured a pivotal moment in China’s history filled with a bewildering emptiness of the new life for all its promise. The melancholy registered in these images is all the more haunting for describing Shenzhen youth, often young country girls trying their luck in the big city and playing out their lives within the context of vast social change. Yang Yong’s photographs are unpretentiously cool expressions of what is quintessentially new in China - the random, crowded, aimless triviality of sudden and unexpected prosperity. |
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