Liu Heung Shing's China Photo Album Published by Taschen

Éditions Taschen has published 'Liu Heung Shing, China', a photo album by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing. The book draws from archives of 88 Chinese photographers to create a portrait of 20th-century China. It includes both propaganda images from the Maoist era—such as staged portraits of Mao and revolutionary operas—and candid photographs documenting the Great Leap Forward famine, executions, and Cultural Revolution humiliations. The large-format prints are noted for their aesthetic and potential market value, comparable to contemporary Chinese art. Texts by Jacques Henric accompany the images.