---------------------------------------------------- Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 10 Aug 2000 New in IGCS - Culture and Art: China: Fifty years inside the People's Republic Ed./Corp.: Asia Society, New York, USA URL: http://www.asiasociety.org/arts/chinaphotos/frame_set.html Language: English. Resource type: Photo exhibition. Self description: "China's diversity is revealed in luminous photographs by Hiroji Kubota, in which vibrant emblems of the country's rural past converge with intimate views of present-day life, and in the panoramic landscapes of Lois Conner, resonant with allusions to ancient art forms. Chinese artists Xiao-Ming Li, Zhang Hai-er, and Wang Jinsong explore aspects of contemporary life through religious practices, popular culture, and the proud accumulation of household possessions. Chinese-Americans Reagan Louie, Mark Leong, and Richard Yee use photography as a medium to understand their parents' native land--and in the process, their own identities as artists and world citizens. In Sebastião Salgado's photographs of Shanghai we see the convergence of old and new on a grand scale, while Zheng Nong focuses on yet another aspect of China's modernization: the polarizing effects of rapid urban and industrial growth. These themes and more are further explored in photographs by Eve Arnold, David Butow, Macduff Everton, Stuart Franklin, Robert Glenn Ketchum, Antonin Kratochvil, Liu Heung Shing, Brian Palmer, Wu Jialin, and Xu Jinyan." Description: Each photographer's work is introduced by a short biography and a few words by the artist. Includes a 9000 word introductory essay titled "This is our China" by Rae Yang, currently Chair of the East Asian Studies Program at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA. Site contents: Introduction; Essay; Photographers; Chronology (Qing Dynasty - Today); Catalogue (ordering information); Credits. Note: Frames capable browser needed! _______________________________________________________ With kind regards, Hanno Lecher ([log in to unmask]) INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L