As a photojournalist, Liu Heung Shing is blessed with many gifts, among them an uncanny ability to spot the small moments of ordinary life that come to stand for something larger, as well as a newshound’s nose for being at the right place at the right time
He saw history unfolding in front of him: The massacre at Tiananmen Square. The chaotic coup attempt to unseat Gorbachev. The swift stroke of the pen that marked the fall of the USSR. And, yes, Shanghai’s first American fashion show . Time and again, Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing positioned himself at political and cultural turning points, capturing, from a mere lens-length away, the telltale moments in China’s rise and the Soviet Union’s demise.
Bianca Jagger in the dressing room before the first American fashion show in Shanghai led by designer Halston, credited with defining style for the jet set in the 1970s. Dr. Fu Nongyu points to the eyes of a patient who has undergone plastic surgery to create"double eyelids," common to Westerners. Fu was the only surgeon in Beijing who could perform these"eye jobs," operating on one eye at a time so the patient could cycle home, Beijing, 1980.
A giant portrait of Mao is removed from the Museum of Chinese History on the east side of Tiananmen Square, signaling an official end to the personality cult of Mao and the start of the de-Maoification of China that began after the completion of the trail of the Gang of Four in 1981 featured on the cover of"Life in a Sea of Red," by Liu Heung Shing.
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