Title: A Life in a Sea of Red
Photographer(s): Liu Heung Shing
Writer(s): Pi Li, Geoff Raby, Christopher Phillips
Designer(s): Liu Heung Shing, Pan Yingyee, Holger Feroudj, Gerhard Steidl. Ding Ming.
Publisher(s): Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
Year: 2019
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Language(s): English
Pages: 288
Size: 30.5 x 33 cm
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition:
Print: Steidl, Göttingen, Germany
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: China, 1977-1989
ISBN: 978-3-95829-545-2
Understanding the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 as the harbinger of change for China, Liu arrived in Beijing in 1978 to photograph the country at a moment of momentous transition for Time magazine. This he did in an empathetic, unfiltered manner beyond the visual narrative perpetuated by the Chinese government—from the withdrawal of Mao’s portraits from the public realm, to the increase in free commercial, artistic and personal expression, to the 1989 violence on Tiananmen Square.