China: The Photographs of Lois Conner

by Geremie R. Barmé, Lois Conner (Photographer), Jonathan Spence (Foreword)

An astonishing magnum opus by one of today's great women photographers documenting the subtle beauty and dramatically changing face of China. For the past fifteen years Lois Conner has traveled alone throughout China equipped with a huge banquet camera. She photographs the landscapes and the people, documenting the ancient and unchanging geological terrain as well as the social and cultural upheaval of contemporary China. Her camera, which weighs forty pounds, produces a negative that is seven inches high and seventeen inches wide, enabling her to make breathtaking panoramas.

Genres: China

152 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Geremie R. Barmé is an historian, cultural critic, filmmaker, translator and web-journal editor who works on Chinese cultural and intellectual history from the early modern period (1600s) to the present. He is Founding Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, where he also edits the online e-journal China Heritage Quarterly.