Across the West of China

Zhuang Xueben was a native of Shanghai. He worked as a special photographer for the Shanghai pictorials The Young Companion , Zhonghua, and Shun Pao ,Shen Bao. He was an outstanding pioneer of modern Chinese visual anthropology and an excellent photographic artist, and his photographs' historical significance and cultural quality are undoubtedly something to be truly proud of in the history of Chinese photography. During the period of 1934-1942, Zhuang set off for multiple field trips to ethnic minorities’ habitation in Sichuan, Yunnan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, and took more than ten thousand photographs and wrote nearly a million words of research reports, travelogues and diaries, leaving us a credible visual archive and survey for the history of China's ethnic minorities.

Until May 31, 2025

Guangdong Museum of Art (Baietan) No.19-1 Bai'etan Nan Lu, Liwan

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