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From Civil Strife to Global Superpower: 80 Years of Magnum in China

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Eve Arnold Horse training for the militia. Inner Mongolia. China. 1979. © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Olivia Arthur Shoppers enter Lotus Supermarket. Shanghai. China. 2013 © Olivia Arthur | Magnum Photos
Marc Riboud Students on Tian An Men square. Beijing , China. 1965. © Marc Riboud | Magnum Photos
Marc Riboud One of the last aristocrats. Wang Fujing street. Beijing. © Marc Riboud | Magnum Photos
Robert Capa © International Center of Photography Boy soldier. Hankou. China. March 1938. © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography | Magnum Photos
Eve Arnold Scientist's children. China. 1979. © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann A group of Chinese watching "the Long Nose", a term which refers to all westerners, including the photographer. Beijing. China. 1982. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Eve Arnold CHINA. Barefoot docter in Shanghai Commune. 1979 © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Eve Arnold Permanent wave. China. 1979. © Eve Arnold | Magnum Photos
Robert Capa © International Center of Photography Children playing in the snow. Hankou. China. March, 1938. © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography | Magnum Photos
Inge Morath Street scene, Xian. China. 1978. © Inge Morath | Magnum Photos
Chien-Chi Chang Lung-Fa Tang Temple. Mental patients. Kaohsiung. Taiwan. 1998. © Chien-Chi Chang | Magnum Photos
Chien-Chi Chang CHINA. Yanji. 2007. This North Korea defector stole across the frozen Tumen at night. In China, he hid in a church shelter, fearing arrest and deportation. © Chien-Chi Chang | Magnum Photos
Chien-Chi Chang Lung-Fa Tang Temple. Mental patients. Kaohsiung. Taiwan. 1998. © Chien-Chi Chang | Magnum Photos
Robert Capa © International Center of Photography Young women being trained as Nationalist Chinese soldiers. After having lost Shanghai and Nankijng to the Japanese troops, CHANG KAI SHEK retreated to Hankou, where he resisted until late 1938. Han (...)
Carolyn Drake "Brother, they hung me like this. My hands were hung above and just my toes touched the ground. That's hell in this world." – father of a young man who tried to escape to Kyrgyzstan after the Urumq (...)
Carolyn Drake "Its the street I was born on. It is a beautiful street. My son drew his dream. A person is running after this thief. My wife wanted to draw a beautiful girl." Kashgar Old Town. Xinjiang Uyghur Aut (...)
Stuart Franklin Tiananmen Square. Beijin, China. 1989. © Stuart Franklin | Magnum Photos
Martin Parr American Dream Park. Shanghai, China. 1997. © Martin Parr | Magnum Photos
Robert Capa © International Center of Photography CHINA. Hankou. March, 1938. Man painting the Statue of Liberty on a patriotic wall mural. © Robert Capa © International Center of Photography | Magnum Photos
Bruno Barbey Airport. The Guard of Honor of the Popular Army of Liberation. Shanghai. China. 1973. © Bruno Barbey | Magnum Photos
Burt Glinn Yangshuo. Guangxi. China. 1980. © Burt Glinn | Magnum Photos
Henri Cartier-Bresson CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. As the morning mists clear over Beijing, a city surrounded by Communist troops, the Kuomintang calls some 10 000 recruits, mostly shopkeepers and small businessmen, t (...)
Marc Riboud China. Demonstration to protest against the US military intervention in North Vietnam. 1965. © Marc Riboud | Magnum Photos
René Burri CHINA. Beijing. 1964. Former Summer Palace. Dead lotus flowers on the Kunming Lake. © René Burri | Magnum Photos
Inge Morath Soldiers on Yuan Dynasty sculpture of a Maitreya. West Lake near Hangzhou. China. 1978. © Inge Morath | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann Young member of a triad with his girlfriend. Hong Kong. 1988. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Bruno Barbey CHINA. Shanghai. 1980. © Bruno Barbey | Magnum Photos
Patrick Zachmann CHINA. Province of Zhejiang. Town of Wenzhou. February 1991. Hairdresser and beauty parlour. Those shops often serve as cover for prostitution activities. © Patrick Zachmann | Magnum Photos
Guy Le Querrec Hairdressing salon Hong Kong, Sun Yat Sen Avenue. Sunday 6th May 1984. © Guy Le Querrec | Magnum Photos
Ian Berry The old city of Wanxian on the banks of the Yangtze which is about to be flooded in the next phase of the Three Gorges Dam project. Wanxian. Sichuan. China. 2002. © Ian Berry | Magnum Photos
Jim Goldberg China. Beijing. 2017. © Jim Goldberg | Magnum Photos
Lu-Nan Mental Hospital Sichuan. Sichuan, China. 1990. © Lu-Nan | Magnum Photos
Stuart Franklin CHINA. Shanghai. Cyclists in the rain. 1993 © Stuart Franklin | Magnum Photos
Bruce Gilden CHINA. 1999. Rural woman. © Bruce Gilden | Magnum Photos
Bruce Gilden CHINA. Zhenjiang. 1999. At the market. © Bruce Gilden | Magnum Photos