China, Portrait of a Country
by James Kynge, Karen Smith
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Author: James Kynge, Karen SmithEditor: Liu Heung Shing
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: French (Unknown); German (Original Language); French (Original Language); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-01
ISBN: 383650569X
Number of pages: 424
Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc
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Book Review: A superb history of China since 1949 in photographs
Summary: 5 Stars
Liu Heung Shing was "Time's" first photojournalist based in Beijing starting in 1976. He has since worked for the Associated Press in Beijing, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul, and Moscow. Liu won a Pulitzer for his photographs of Russia. Here he features photographers whose work is not well-known in the West.
"The book is meant to be a visual chronicle of the People's Republic since 1949. To lay out the chapters as I have done, the transport of time and events could also let the readers appreciate the gradual changes, the clothing, and the body language of the people in their daily lives."
The images are the story here, of course -- Longitude Travel called it one of the best travel books of the year with "stunning photographs" -- but the commentary is also useful. For example, in a photo by Qiu Yan in 2004 entitled "Children practicing gymnastics at a special school for athletes in Hubei province."
Chinese people also have their own "never again" determination of not letting the country reverse back to the periods preceding the Cultural Revolution and the period itself, which lasted nearly 10 years. The tumultuous events for the Chinese people have lasted almost 30 years from the establishment of the new republic.
Stunning photographs, indeed, well presented and printed.
Robert C. Ross 2009
Summary of China, Portrait of a Country
The People's Republic seen by Chinese photographers. This book brings together a vast selection of images by Chinese photographers since 1949, giving readers a visual journey across the great People's Republic; edited by esteemed photojournalist Liu Heung Shing, longtime Associated Press correspondent and Time magazine contributor. In post-Mao China, late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping urged his one billion countrymen to "seek truth from facts." Taking its cue from Deng's overture, China today is the leading economic story of the 21st century. The process by which China navigated the path from periphery to a central position in world affairs dominates the debate about Asia and China's relationship to the western world. Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing charts the visual history of sixty years of the People's Republic (1949 to 2008), and along the way aims to illustrate the humanistic course.How-to Books
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