Ford Motor Company This exhibition is made possible by FORD MOTOR COMPANY In keeping with their commitment to the life and culture of China and its people and to excellence in photography. The project is generously funded by THE STARR FOUNDATION The exhibition and accompanying publication were organized and produced by Aperture Foundation in association with Asia Society. Michael E. Hoffman, Executive Director Peggy Roalf, Project Director Support for the Asia Society's cultural programs Is provided by The Friends of Asian Arts, Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, The Starr Foundation, and the Armand G. Erpf Fund. Web site by Smith Renaud, Inc. Acknowledgments Among the many who have shared their insights and expertise on China and beyond, we especially thank Mathieu Borysevicz, Cornell Capa, Fred W. Drake, Joseph Fung, Nancy Hearst, Cindy Ho, Reagan Louie, Liu Heung Shing, Brian Palmer, Mary L. Pei, Shuang Shen, Boriana Song, Wu Jialin, and Zhang Kai Yuan. For their support of the exhibition we thank Mabel Brandon Cabot of Ford Motor Company; Ambassador Frank A. Wisner of AIG, and T. C. Hsu of The Starr Foundation; Stanley Harsha of the American Embassy, Beijing; Lu Jun and Lou Bai-Qian of the China International Cultural Exchange Center, Beijing; the Asia Society, especially Vishakha N. Desai, Colin C. Mackenzie, and Chaos Yang Chen; and Gus Kayafas of Palm Press, Inc. For their assistance in editorial and exhibition production matters, we thank Eric Lewandowski, Anna McPherson, Françoise Piffard, Jodi Saunders, Mary Steele, Diana Stoll, and David Strettell. We are grateful to the photographers whose work we were not able to include in these pages; viewing their images contributed much to our understanding of contemporary life, and of photography, in China. We also thank the staff at Aperture for the traveling exhibition: Launa Beuhler, Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator; Hiuwai Chu, Associate Traveling Exhibitions Coordinator; Rebecca Welch, Gallery Manager; Anthony Montoya, Archive Director; Annie Hollingsworth, Gallery Work-Scholar; and Erin Tohill, Gallery Work-Scholar. Under Title 17 of the US Code and Copyright Law, all images are copyright and courtesy of the photographer unless otherwise noted. Image files presented on this website contain digital watermarks identifying their source and cannot be copied, printed, or used for any purpose.