Shenzhen’s largest and oldest new year’s flower market is located on Aiguo Road, which has been closed for the bustling street fair. For a good quarter mile, several hundred venders hawk fresh and artificial flowers, Brazilian turtles, Chinese medicine, and plastic bubble hammers that read “Diaoyu Island belongs to China”. To join the festive multitudes, take the Third Line Subway to the Cuizhu Station and exit onto Yijing Road. Follow the crowds one block to the Main Gate, where photo opportunities abound. So go and get your snake on! Portraits, below:
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About Mary Ann O'Donnell
I have conducted ethnographic research in Shenzhen since 1995, aiming to make legible the shifting cultural landscapes of China’s oldest and fastest growing “Special Economic Zone.” My interests and interventions include theorizing the cultural logics of postsocialist urbanization, photography and creative documentation of the changing cityscape, and ongoing collaboration with Fat Bird Theatre, Shenzhen. More generally, I attempt to document, understand, and critically participate in the post Cold War production of industrial cosmographies, with an eye to imagining cross-culturally resonant forms of sustainable globalization.
I really liked it there, except when I got my phone stolen
sigh.