Old Road New Connections: China Builds a Different World

A Journey by Liu Heung Shing

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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China, nearly half a century after economic transformation and development, is changing not just itself, but the world around it. The BRI (Belt and Road Initiative, a global infrastructure and economic development program initiated by the Chinese government) promises investments in countries along the ancient overland trading routes between China and the West, with maritime arcs around Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent and the Arabian peninsula, down the eastern coast of Africa and through the Mediterranean. In this book are selected many distinctive, wonderful shots taken in about 21 countries participating in the BRI, covering 50 regions and a distance of over 267,000 kilometres the author visited from early 2023 to late 2025 as photographer. Through words and pictures, he takes the reader on a tour along the new Belt and Road, showing it as it is actually unfolding in the real world across Asia, Central Asia, Latin America and the Middle East and Africa. This book serves as a good observation and thinking of the reality of China today.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-02-02
Mått185 x 260 x undefined mm
Vikt971 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieChina Culture Perspectives
Antal sidor493
FörlagACC Art Books
ISBN9781788843782

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Liu Heung Shing was the first Time magazine photojournalist posted in Beijing since 1978. He later worked as chief photographer for the Associated Press in Beijing, Los Angeles, New Delhi, Seoul and Moscow. Liu is the author of China After Mao (1983 Penguin), China, Portrait of a Country (2008 Taschen), 1911: The Road to Revolution, (Hong Kong University Press), and co-author of Shanghai, Portrait of a City (Penguin Viking), A Life in a Sea of Red (2018 Steidl, Germany). He was invited three consecutive years to serve as a jury member of Rhode Scholarship, (China).

Preface: Reflections from the Road Foreword: The Power of Bearing Witness Zhu Ming Western China Xi’an (Shaanxi) Lanzhou, Dunhuang (Gansu) Yinchuan (Ningxia) Chongqing (Sichuan) Kashgar, Taxkorgan (Xinjiang) Southeast Asia Thailand Bangko Cambodia Phnom Penh, Siem ReapIndonesia Jakarta, Bandung Singapore Strait of Malacca Pakistan Gwadar Essay: Illuminating China’s Global Role George Yeo Central AsiaKazakhstan Almaty, Astana, Aktau Uzbekistan Tashkent, Samarkand Western Asia Iran Qom, Tehran, Qazvin Province, Karaj Qatar Doha Saudi Arabia Mecca Europe Russia St. Petersburg, Moscow France Paris, Dijon, Bordeaux, Vannes Italy Milan, Prato, Firenze Greece Athens Essay: Old Road New Paradigm Dr Joanna Lei Chien Africa D.R.Congo Kolwezi, Lubumbashi, Kipushi Kenya Nairobi Ghana Tema Algeria Western Sahara Desert South America Peru Lima, Callao, Chancay port Brazil Sao Paulo, Cravinhos , Goias Rio de Janeiro, Paulista City, Paracambi Eastern China Shanghai, Songjiang, Wenzhou Shenzhen, Beijing, Hong Kong Archive: Old Silk Road and the Early Explorers Acknowledgements Photo Credits Map Credit