Mao's paradise /
Stefan Hammer's travels through China have produced an incisive look at urban life there, in photographs taken predominantly in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Tianjin and Hong Kong. He is drawn in equal measure to the ultramodern, hugely capitalist quarters of booming megacities and to neighborhood...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Eindhoven] :
Lecturis,
[2017]
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| Summary: | Stefan Hammer's travels through China have produced an incisive look at urban life there, in photographs taken predominantly in Shanghai, Beijing, Suzhou, Tianjin and Hong Kong. He is drawn in equal measure to the ultramodern, hugely capitalist quarters of booming megacities and to neighborhoods that are in danger of being torn down. How well are the Chinese doing at finding their own identity, one that is permanently marked by the old propaganda and defined by the panacea promised by consumerism? |
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| Physical Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9789462262591 9462262594 |