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The End of the Era
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PrizeHonorable Mention
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PhotographerSheng-Yu Lin, Taiwan
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Date of PhotographJuly 12, 2025
“The cemetery of Full General Yen Hsi-Shan” was established in 1960 by the R.O.C. government on Mount Yangmingshan in Taipei. Yen was one of the great warlords during the Chinese Civil War and is known as “the King of Shanxi.”
The cemetery features a style of early Republican China, with concrete decorations of Chinese characters on the stairs leading to the tomb; their meaning relates to Yen's unique interpretation of "Mean."
With Yen's last subordinate, who watched the cemetery for 60 years, deceased in 2024, the place is no longer accompanied by living memories, marking the end of an era.