Author(s): National Geographic

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"National Geographic's" new book "Inside China", tells that story with the best pictures ever taken of China, both past and present. Exotic China has always attracted great photographers -and China's history has yielded unforgettble images. "Inside China" brings you historic photographs you haven't seen before: Photographic luminaries such as Henri Cartier-Bresson (who photographed Beijing and Shanghai in the 1940s) and Margaret Bourke-White (photographing Chiang Kai-Shek) portray the old China and the ascendancy of Chairman Mao; photographs by Chinese news photographer Li Zhensheng cover the Cultural Revolution to give startling new insights into this harsh mysterious era.Today's China, filled with excitement and fraught with challenge, is vividly shown by contemporary photographers such as Mark Leong, Paolo Pellegrin, and Mark Henley, who, with privileged access, present China's fashionable youth and glamour, the development of breathtaking mega-industry, and new materialism alongside traditional religion and rural life, revealing the rapidly changing scene in China in all its complexity.