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A young couple seeks refuge under a bridge during the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 5, 1989. Photographer: Liu Heung Shing

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing is releasing collection 88 rare photographs giving us a glimpse of day-to-day life in China under communism. China, Portrait of a Country, which will be released in the United States on August 1, 2008, captures the People’s Republic from 1949 to 2008.

I wonder where they are if they are still together after almost 20 years now…

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Ya-ch’ou Square Tsun
Late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC)
Height: 39.1 cm, rim diameter: 29.9 cm

I found this vessel on the website of National Palace Museum in Taiwan. it is cast bronze and is from the Shang Dynasty in China. Click to see the detail view and the link to the site.

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