Category Archives: Photography

Thomas Hahn photography: eight months after the quake

Thomas H. Hann was in Dujiangyan, Yingxiu and Wenchuan, and took black and white photos to document what he saw.

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Tom Carter: Portrait of a People

Tom Carter is a photographer who spent two years backpacking around China, taking photographs of people in every province. The result is a book called China: Portrait of a People, recently published by Blacksmith Books.

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Celebrating National Day, 1984

The story behind the Hello, Xiaoping banner carried by students in the National Day parade in 1984.

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Bound feet in China

Yesterday your correspondent received an email with the below photographs attached: a series of very compelling images capturing remnants of the old Chinese practice of foot binding. After a cursory attempt to find an original source for these photos I … Continue reading

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Sword swallowing in Beijing

Photos from Janek Zdzarski.

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Netizens pick apart the Chang’e moon photo

The Chang’e moon photo wasn’t faked – it was stitched together wrong.

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Fake tiger, real news?

The Zhou Zhenglong tiger – is it fake?

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Maps, Territory, and Place Names in China

A discussion of a new scheme for China’s administrative divisions (中国地图), street names in the Cultural Revοlution, and territorial integrity.

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Flickr.com filtered in China

Photo-sharing website Flickr.com seems to have been attacked by the Net Nanny. Although it is still possible to load the website and even to log on and upload photos, the Nanny is using some type of filtering technology that stops … Continue reading

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Mountains, seas, and official reading material

Wen Jiabao (温家宝) visits Northeast Normal University (东北师范大学); photo has the Classic of Mountains and Seas (山海经) blurred out.

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