Assignment Shanghai: Photographs on the Eve of Revolution: 2 - Rilegato

Birns, Jack; Light, Ken; Wakeman, Carolyn

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520239903 ISBN 13: 9780520239906

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 2003

Riassunto

The author's photographs from 1947 Shanghai express the brutality, confusion, and tumult of a country on the verge of major change, capturing the beggars, street executions, refugees, prostitutes, and ordinary people who made this city a spectacular locale for photo-journalists during the revolution. (History)

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jack Birns is a former Life photographer who was stationed in Shanghai during the final years of China's Civil War. Carolyn Wakeman is Associate Professor of Journalism and Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where she directs the Asia-Pacific Program at the Graduate School of Journalism. Ken Light is a teaching fellow and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Orville Schell is the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

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"For over half a century, Americans have been pondering the reasons for the swift collapse of the Nationalist Chinese forces during 1948 and early 1949. Jack Birns’s agile lens brings many things into focus for us: the manifold levels of urban poverty, the breakdown of any pretense to social order, the random brutality meted out to suspected Communists, and the unsparing distance between foreign privilege and domestic deprivation. This book is a powerful addition to our pictorial and emotional record of those bitter months."—Jonathan D. Spence, author of The Search for Modern China

"As a journalist who covered the Chinese civil war and reported the Communist siege of Mukden and the fall of Nanjing and Shanghai in 1949, I can testify to the penetrating authenticity of these Jack Birns photographs, which capture the essence of the agonizing human upheaval on the eve of Mao Zedong’s ascent to power. Birns has given us a stunning pictorial record of focal events during a world-changing revolution."—Seymour Topping, former managing editor of the New York Times and SanPaolo Professor Emeritus of International Journalism, Columbia University

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0520239903
• ISBN 13: 9780520239906
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 144
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile