Title: Disturbing but very powerful
Product review: I found these images very powerful...at first look they remind me of Diane Arbus and Robert Frank, but on closer examination you could feel his own invested feelings for these tragic and unfortunate characters. I don't agree with other reviewers about this book. Liu's approach is typical of a photojournalist, who takes as his own reponsibility to expose the more disturbing and the more marginal. Some Chinese readers may feel offended by Liu showing to the world the sick the dying the uneducated the imporverished and the uncultivated...but Liu also showed their joy their dignity and their humor and their hopes. Chinese, and especially oversea Chinese, tend to have this self-esteem complex and always want to boost their own ego by showing only the glittering side of their own country, but a true patriotic can look at his own wound without shame and make his own efforts to better off a society as a whole.
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