For Chinese Bible, Yang Zhichao spent three years collecting from second-hand shops the personal diaries of overlapping generations. The 3,000 notebooks inscribed with personal writings span 50 years from 1949 to 1999. The writings reach deep into the very essence of feelings among the Chinese whether emotional, political or even mundane during a half-century of monumentally changing times. Chinese Bible displays not only the physical objects of the notebooks as an installation but also the process of collecting them.

Courtesy of 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong.