Chengdu: Now and Then

A city, struggling to shake free of its political turmoil for half a century, strove for wealth, growth and prominence in the backwater landlocked region of China. A boy, growing up in the city searching for his own identity and success, witnessed a decade of cultural transformation. The relationship was interrupted when the boy moved away with his parents for twenty years, but the bond was never broken. Now a grown man with Western socio-political mentality, how does he find home in a place that no longer looked like home that he left behind?