Lu Nan | The Forgotten People: The State of Chinese Psychiatric Wards Zhang Shuhua (right), 38, has been hospitalized for over two months in the Tianjin Psychiatric Hospital. Because there is no one to turn her over and wash her, she has grown fist-sized bedsores. Te (...)
n days after this picture was taken, she died in the hospital. Tianjin, China. 1989. © Lu Nan | Magnum Photos
Lu Nan | The Forgotten People: The State of Chinese Psychiatric Wards An 11 year old girl in the Beijing Psychiatric Hospital. Due to a lack of children’s wards, China’s most juvenile sufferers have to be kept together with adult patients. Rather than taking care of (...)
such children, the adult patients may even beat them. Beijing, China. 1989. © Lu Nan | Magnum Photos
Lu Nan | The Forgotten People: The State of Chinese Psychiatric Wards This is a ward for serious cases. At Guangxi Psychiatric Hospital there are 10+ wards like this. Zhou Juduo, 23, has been hospitalized for over a month but has never left Ward 13. Guangxi, China. 1 (...)
990. © Lu Nan | Magnum Photos
Lu Nan | The Forgotten People: The State of Chinese Psychiatric Wards Chen Jinming, 45, has been hospitalized for five years. During a psychotic episode 20 years ago, he stayed outside too long in the snow, causing loss of some fingers and all his toes to frostbite. (...)
Psychiatric Hospital Tianjin, China. 1989. © Lu Nan | Magnum Photos