China in Revolution: The Road to 1911

Liu, Heung Shing

ISBN 10: 9888139509 / ISBN 13: 9789888139507

Published by Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, 2011

About this Item

Hardcover with DJ. Generously illustrated throughout in b/w, with many full page images. Very minor chip to back of DJ, near head of spine. Overall clean, unmarked, and square. In original shipping box. 4to.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: China in Revolution: The Road to 1911
• Publisher: Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9888139509
• ISBN 13: 9789888139507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: About Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • CHINESE ART

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Synopsis

The 1911 Revolution ended dynastic rule in China and paved the way for the founding of Asia's first republic. Triggered by an accidental bomb explosion in Wuchang (modernday Wuhan), the revolution marked the culminating point of decades of internal rebellion, foreign aggression and political decline; its leaders drew on a ferment of reformist and revolutionary ideas produced by some of China's greatest modern thinkers. China in Revolution assembles a remarkable survey of historical photographs from leading collections around the world.

About the Author

Liu Heung Shing is a former foreign correspondent and photojournalist whose postings took him from Beijing to Los Angeles, New Delhi to Seoul, and to Moscow for the Associated Press. During that time he photographed major world events form the Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan to civil war in Sri Lanka and China's burgeoning economic reforms. He was also on hand to capture the fall of the USSR: in 1992, Liu shared a Pulitzer Prize for Spot News and an Overseas Press Club Award for his coverage of the Soviet Union's collapse. In 1989, Liu was honored with award of Picture of the Year by the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. In the same year, Liu was named Best Photographer by the Associated Press Managing Editors. Liu is the author of the widely acclaimed photographic documentation China After Mao and Soviet Union: Collapse of an Empire. He is the editor of China, Portrait of a Country, which has been published in six languages. The book was selected by Britain's Sunday Times as the Best Picture Book 2008. In 2010, Liu co-authored with Karen Smith Shanghai, A History in Photographs 1842 to Today. In 2004, Paris Photo named Liu as one of the hundred most influential people in contemporary photography. Liu graduated from Hunter College. City University of New York in 1975. He lives and works in Beijing.