杨来青

Yang Laiqing is an author whose writing centers on the local history of Qingdao. Publicly available information about him is limited, and details such as his biography, nationality, and dates of birth and death have not been clearly recorded. Judging from the three works held in the collection, he focuses on popularizing modern Qingdao history through visual narrative. His representative works include An Illustrated History of Old Qingdao: The First Japanese Occupation, An Illustrated Account of the 1925 Qingdao Workers' Strike, and An Illustrated History of the May Fourth Movement and Qingdao. All three adopt an "illustrated" format, combining historical photographs with explanatory text to recreate Qingdao's social landscape at key moments such as the German and Japanese occupations, the May Fourth Movement, and the early workers' movement. His writing falls within the categories of history reading and documentary literature, addresses general readers, and emphasizes the visual appeal and accessibility of historical sources, contributing to the dissemination of local historical knowledge.