China: As Photographed by Henri Cartier-Bresson

China: 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 siege, 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.

Subjects of lasting interest 
Stirring pictorial statements
Distinctive texts.