China after Mao: seek truth from facts

Title: China after Mao: seek truth from facts

Photographer(s): Liu Heung Shing

Writer(s): Victoria Graham, Richard Bernstein, Liu Heung Shing

Designer(s): Chumpon Apisuk

Publisher(s): Penguin Books, London, England

Year: 1983

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Language(s): English

Pages: 176

Size: 21,5 x 26,5 cm

Binding: Softcover

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Print: Ying Wai Printing Press, Hong Kong

Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: China,1966-1976

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An entire country captures unposed and authentic in a unique collection of photographs. China is seen emerging from a frightening period of political terror into an era where its true nature can be expressed once again. In decades to come, we and those who follow us will need to look back on post-Maoist China and try to understand what was the experience then of the nearly one-quarter of humanity that is Chinese. It will, I predict, be the images in this collection by Lin Heung Shing that, more than any other single source, will most deeply touch our understanding.

President Xi Jinping once said that all China’s achievements in the past can be attributed to its tradition of seeking truth from facts. Facing new situations and new challenges in the new era, the country must carry forward this tradition, fine-tune its policies according to changes in domestic and international situations, further reform in all aspects, and improve its governance model. In advancing Chinese modernization, it is marching toward the goal of national rejuvenation.