CHAIRMAN MAO'S MEMORIAL HALL, 1978

CHAIRMAN MAO'S MEMORIAL HALL, 1978

Hardback, white satin cloth edition, gilt stamped title and further stamped decoration, 325 x 270mm, with English title bellyband, acetate jacket and cardboard slipcase, colour photographs throughout depicting Mao's mausoleum and its construction, Chinese language. Published by China Architecture and Building Press and National State Infrastructure Commission Institute of Construction Science, 1978.

"This book further memorializes Mao, while also proudly documenting the tremendous achievement of the hall's construction by the publisher of this book, China Architecture and Building Press. The building project involved hundreds of thousands of conscripted "volunteers" who completed the massive edifice in only six months. The book's title appears in English on a bellyband wrapped around the cover; an English-language brochure is loosely inserted into its pages. The brochure identifies the photographers by name, accompanied by numbers corresponding to the photos taken by each of them. The location of the memorial hall in Tiananmen Square in Beijing ensures that Mao's presence still cannot be ignored." --Martin Parr & WassinkLundgren, The Chinese Photobook: From the 1900s to the Present Day, Aperture, 2015, p.252.

Provenance: A private London collection

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