柴继军 主编，毕业于南京大学新闻传播学系。1995―2006年在中国青年报摄影部任图片编辑、摄影记者。2000年与人合作创办国内互联网图片公司 Photocome.。2006年，担任国务院新闻办公室图片库（ChinaFotoPress）执行总编辑。现任视觉中国执行董事、总编辑。

　　40 years ago， we aspired For the beautiful life of "living in buildjngs， using electric lamps and telephone" and eating "beef stewed with potatoes" in daily life； 40 years later， people living in material abundance rack their brains to find the ways to keep their spiritual world from loneliness. China's society and economy have seen a geometric growth in the 40 years. The photographers undertake the responsibility of recording the times， keep a video diary with their camera and give a panoramic sketch of the times. It is the poetic thought and magic power of time. The book carefully selects more than 300 works of Chinese and foreign photographers that objectively show From multiple dimensions the changes of the Chinese in basic necessities of Iife， consumption， money management and social connections from 1978 to 2018. It s impossible For us to retrieve the lost time but we can open the photo album and recall the happiness and hardships through the whole journey recorded in photos.

CLOTHING
FOOD
HOUSING
TRANSPORTATION
STREET ADVERTISING
ACQUISITION OF WEALTH
CONSUMPTION
THE STOCK MARKET
CELLPHONES
MASS PHOTOGRAPHY
TRAVELLING
CULTURE AND ENTERTAINMENT
CHILDHOOD
COLLEGE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION
MARRIAGE
ENTERING CITIES
THE SPRING FESTIVAL TRAVEL SEASON
LEFT-BEHIND CHILDREN
THE NEW COUNTRYSIDE
SHENZHEN
SHANGHAI
HAINAN ISLAND
ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY
NATIONAL PARKS