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). In 1992, together with his colleagues at Associated Press, Liu Heung Shing won the Pulitzer Prize for Live News Photography Award for photographing President Gorbachev and his announcement of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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• 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

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). In 1992, together with his colleagues at Associated Press, Liu Heung Shing won the Pulitzer Prize for Live News Photography Award for photographing President Gorbachev and his announcement of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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• 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

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). In 1992, together with his colleagues at Associated Press, Liu Heung Shing won the Pulitzer Prize for Live News Photography Award for photographing President Gorbachev and his announcement of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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• 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