Chinese Encounters
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At a time when China was only just beginning to open its doors to Western eyes, photographer Inge Morath and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller journeyed deep into one of the world's most ancient and complex civilisations, capturing what few outsiders had ever witnessed. Chinese Encounters chronicles their remarkable 1978 journey through the People's Republic, pairing Morath's extraordinary photographs with Miller's incisive prose to create a vivid portrait of a nation standing at the crossroads of its own history — still scarred by the Cultural Revolution, yet stirring with cautious change. The result is a rare and compelling document of a civilisation in transition, where ancient traditions and Maoist ideology exist in uneasy proximity. Miller's literary acuity brings a playwright's ear for dialogue and contradiction to his observations of Chinese workers, intellectuals, and officials, while Morath's lens finds both the monumental and the intimate. Praised by Francine du Plessix Gray as the most important and timely travel book in many years, this collaboration asks a question that still resonates: what does it mean to truly see a country that has spent decades unseen?
Author: Inge Morath / Arthur Miller
Format: Paperback
Genre: Asian history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
At a time when China was only just beginning to open its doors to Western eyes, photographer Inge Morath and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller journeyed deep into one of the world's most ancient and complex civilisations, capturing what few outsiders had ever witnessed. Chinese Encounters chronicles their remarkable 1978 journey through the People's Republic, pairing Morath's extraordinary photographs with Miller's incisive prose to create a vivid portrait of a nation standing at the crossroads of its own history — still scarred by the Cultural Revolution, yet stirring with cautious change. The result is a rare and compelling document of a civilisation in transition, where ancient traditions and Maoist ideology exist in uneasy proximity. Miller's literary acuity brings a playwright's ear for dialogue and contradiction to his observations of Chinese workers, intellectuals, and officials, while Morath's lens finds both the monumental and the intimate. Praised by Francine du Plessix Gray as the most important and timely travel book in many years, this collaboration asks a question that still resonates: what does it mean to truly see a country that has spent decades unseen?