There is currently an art exhibition on view in Australia featuring a work called “Chinese Bible” by Yang Zhichao. It is a “monumental installation of 3000 notebooks and diaries inscribed between 1949 and 1999. These small books were collected by the artist from Beijing markets from 2005 to 2008 and ritually washed before presentation. Once owned by people of all ages and backgrounds, they reveal handwritten notes ranging from the experience of falling in love to the ideological slogans of the Cultural Revolution.”

A view of the installation is below, and in the video you can see more about the project.

You can also see the covers and scanned pages of all the notebooks on the website of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. (I couldn’t help wondering if I would spot one that looked like the 1980 Chinese Diary from my own collection!)

See more at: Scanned notebooks :: Chinese bible :: Art Gallery NSW