<p>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.</p>

China: Portrait of a Country - Portrat eines Landes - Portrait d'un pays by 88 Chinese Photographers

Arts & Photography

Liu, Heung Shing

Photography & Video

Taschen America, LLC

Essays by Tiziano Terzani, Melinda Liu, Huang Yongyu, and Richard Bernstein. Blindstamped charcoal gray cloth binding. Measures 33 x 25 cm. Photo index.

China After Mao

Asia 2000

<p>The 1911 Revolution ended dynastic rule in China and paved the way for the founding of Asia’s first republic. Triggered by an accidental bomb explosion in Wuchang (modern-day Wuhan), the revolution marked the culminating point of decades of internal rebellion, foreign aggression and political decline; its leaders drew on a ferment of reformist and revolutionary ideas produced by some of China’s greatest modern thinkers. Although 1911 did not resolve China’s problems, it changed the country for ever, clearing a path for modernisation, and making possible the more decisive revolution of 1949. China in Revolution assembles a remarkable survey of historical photographs from leading collections around the world. The images stretch from the Second Opium War to the Boxer Rebellion and wars with Russia and Japan, the outbreak of revolution, through the rise and fall of Yuan Shikai and the ensuing warlord era. Accompanying an introductory essay by the editor Liu Heung Shing are essays from three scholars of revolutionary China ― Joseph Esherick of UC San Diego, Zhang Haipeng of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Max K.W. Huang of the Academia Sinica ― reflecting on the causes, achievements and failures of 1911, and its enduring meaning. </p>

China in Revolution: The Road to 1911

Hong Kong University Press

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China: Portrait of a Country - Portrat eines Landes - Portrait d'un pays by 88 Chinese Photographers

China After Mao

China in Revolution: The Road to 1911