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Public information about Xiao Zhuang is limited, and details of the author's identity and life remain to be further verified. What is known is that three works are held in the collection, mostly in the fields of documentary writing and photography. In Faces: The 1950s–1980s, Xiao Zhuang records through images the faces and living conditions of ordinary people in a particular historical period, bearing distinct marks of the times. In There Are Households on Both Banks of the Canal: The Jiangsu Section of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt through Xiao Zhuang's Lens, the camera turns to the everyday households along the Jiangsu section of the Grand Canal, presenting in photographic form the interweaving of canal culture and people's daily lives. I Have Photographed the Yangtze for Seventy Years continues this long-term attention to rivers and people's livelihoods, reflecting decades of sustained photographic accumulation. Overall, Xiao Zhuang's work is mainly documentary photography, centered on historical change, life along the waterways, and ordinary people's daily lives, in a plain and realistic style with considerable documentary and humanistic value.