Elegy to a Uyghur Dreamscape
A new photography exhibition at Harvard University depicts everyday life in Xinjiang, China’s westernmost region.
Dazibao and Woodcuts from 1960s China
World-first Exhibition at Harvard displays “big character posters” from China’s Cultural Revolution Read our four-part blog post series on this exhibition: Exhibiting the Cultural Revolution, Part 1: Reading “Big-Character Posters” Exhibiting the Cultural Revolution, Part 2: The Visual Spectacle of…
Sha Fei 沙飞 (1912–1950): The Photographer who Shaped Modern China
Sha Fei 沙飞 photographed China’s turbulent wartime in the 1930s and 40s, and in doing so defined a national visual culture. Sha Fei’s photographs invoke instantly recognizable images of wartime China. From posters, to newspapers and history text books, his…