Cartier-Bresson H. China: As Photographed By Henri Cartier-Bresson

Bantam Books, 1964. — 218 p.Henri Cartier-Bresson, the world famous photographer, was actually present in China during the last five months of Chiang Kai-shek's government and during the first six months of Mao Tse-tung's new regime. He returned years later to complete his remarkable photographic record of this extraordinary nation in peace and war. Here is the old China — the dragon parades, the Buddhist monks and the sing-song girls. Here is Peiping under seige, the evacuation of Nanking and the bloody convulsions of civil war. Here is the new China, a land of communes and massive political repressions, of modern gold rush towns and, frenzied industrialization — a striking and sometimes terrifying portrait of the second most powerful communist nation.