Liu Heung Shing: A Life In A Sea Of Red Hardcover

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Liu Heung Shing

This book contains the two most important bodies of work by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing (born 1951): photos that document pivotal decades of Communism in China and Russia, made between 1976 and 2017. A Life in a Sea of Red presents scenes of hope, hardship and change under--and in the aftermath of--Communist rule. Liu arrived in Beijing in 1978 on assignment for Time magazine to photograph the country at a moment of momentous transition--from the withdrawal of Mao's portraits from the public realm, to the increase in free commercial, artistic and personal expression, to the violence in Tiananmen Square in 1989 and, more recently, the rise of Chinese yuppies. In contrast, Liu's photos of Russia, taken between 1990 and 1993, document the collapse of a Communist state. The most enduring of these shows Gorbachev throwing down the speech he delivered on December 25, 1991, announcing his resignation and signaling the end of the Soviet Union and Cold War.

9783958295452

English

Steidl Publishers

23 Jul 2019

286

Liu, Heung Shing Hong-Kong-born Liu Heung Shing's honors include Best Photographer from the Associated Press (1989 and 1991), Picture of the Year by the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri (1989) and the Overseas Press Club Award (1992). Liu has documented major international events throughout his four-decade career, and his acclaimed books include China after Mao: "Seek Truth from Facts" (1983), China, Portrait of a Country (2008) and China in Revolution: The Road to 1911 (2012).

[A Life in a Sea of Red] features gripping images taken four decades of chaotic revolution and tumultuous change as the West's Cold War adversaries struggled to cope with change under and after the Communist rule.--ColdType