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E past fifteen years he has captured images that astonish with their power and with his unprecedented access to both official and underground Chinese culture This is a China rarely seen where schoolchildren learn the tenets of Mao and an addict sifts heroin on a bill bearing the Chairman's benevolent likeness; where nervous stockbrokers carry
Summary China Obscura
Arriving in mainland China by chance just a day after the 1989 Tiananmen Suare crackdown young Chinese American photographer Mark Leong was compelled to stay and explore with his camera's lens the fascinating contradictions of a rapidly changing but still intensely traditional Chinese society Living in Beijing and traveling across China for th
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Handguns and teenage rollerbladers hope for fame and financial sponsorship In than 150 photographs with a foreword by noted Chinese poet Yang Lian and an afterword by author Peter Hessler China Obscura is an intimate and exuisitely detailed portrait of a society accelerating toward an uncertain future precariously straddled between old and new
These photographs focused on people of China add a richness of understanding of this place that holds so much mystery for most Westerners I would have appreciated a different structure I understand the artistic decision n
One of my co workers gave this to me today I am really getting excited about going back in a few weeksThank you Charity