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The forbidden images of the Chinese internet

March 5, 2020March 5, 2020

Nothing reflects the lasting potency of the iconic “Tank Man” photo quite like the dogged attempts to censor it on China’s internet. Practically any image that so much as gestures at the famed photograph of a man in front of a line of tanks in Tiananmen Square risks deletion from the country’s closely monitored web; recreations showing a line of books approaching a cigarette package, a swan before an oncoming truck and a grasshopper in front of a tire have all been removed.

China: Searching for history in mega cities

February 16, 2020February 16, 2020

While traveling to China, his civilization with a written history of 4 thousand years wonders the country of Mao, who took radical steps on the way of communism such as “Great Walk, Cultural Revolution” from 1949 to 1978; I wanted to see what kind of a collage he made today, as well as these traces from the past. Let me tell you right away, it is hard to say that a collage has emerged. Apparently today’s landscape is so striking, so dominant that you can not help yourself to focus on today, sometimes with admiration and sometimes anxiety; The traces of the past are almost lost.

China: Dance of dragon and capitalism

February 16, 2020February 16, 2020

The magnificent Forbidden City of the Chinese Empire, which has been the venue for many films, is the largest wooden structure on earth, the length of which reaches a thousand and 800 meters in width.