The Temptation of Borders by: Bo Lin Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House

Introduction · · · · · ·
There once was a country called Yugoslavia. It was once a utopian experiment in cosmopolitanism. Today, its form no longer exists, but it has left a ghostly legacy throughout Eastern Europe.

From 2018 to early 2020, the author set foot on the land of the former Yugoslavia and walked into its six former republics, met or parted with the locals, talked or argued with them, and through the memories from different countries and generations, let the former Yugoslavia gradually emerge in different versions of the story. How should the new generation of people in this land digest their own history and build their own future?

This is a valuable record of the pre-epidemic era. When the world tends to be conservative, closed and isolated, what caused the many boundaries between people and nations? Open this book, break the boundaries, and rebuild the real connection between people.