Recently clearing out my Hong Kong flat as my wife and I are empty nesters (our three children now all in the UK), I came across a large plastic bag filled with negatives, around 50 of them, tightly rolled and wrapped in thin tissue paper. The contents of the bag had not seen the light of day since I pressed the shutter of my camera in the heady summer of 1986, when I lived in Beijing and also travelled by steam locomotive to the city of Datong, Shanxi province, famous for the fourth- and fifth-century Yungang Buddhist caves.
不久前从香港的公寓搬出时——我和妻子已是空巢老人了（我们的三个孩子现在都在英国），偶然发现了一个大塑料袋，里面装满底片，总共约50张，卷得很紧，包在一张薄纸巾中。自从我在令人陶醉的1986年夏天按下快门之后，这些底片就没见过光。当时我住在北京，也乘坐蒸汽火车去山西省大同市旅行过——大同以建于4至5世纪的云冈石窟闻名。
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