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Photograph of a man in a blue blazer and grey slacks lying unconscious on the cement ground amid a tangle of banners, strings, and bamboo poles.

M+, Hong Kong, © M+, Hong Kong

Liu Heung Shing 劉香成

China After Mao—Hunger Strike, Beijing 毛以後的中國──北京，絕食

1989

An exhausted Chinese student sleeps amidst abandoned banners by the Monument to the People’s Heroes in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, towards the end of May 1989, after a month-long hunger strike by the student demonstrators.

Mapping Chinese Art, 1972–2012: Selections for the M+ Sigg Collection. M+, Hong Kong, 2019. sigg.mplus.org.hk

Details

Object Number:

2012.2108

Object Type:

Photography

Related Makers:

Liu Heung Shing (Artist)

Medium:

inkjet print

Date:

1989

Dimensions:

frame: 94 × 123.7 × 4.7 cm; sheet (sight): 88.8 × 119 cm; image (sight): 68.8 × 100 cm

Collection:

M+ Collection

Credit Line:

M+, Hong Kong

About the Maker:

Liu Heung Shing (born 1951, Hong Kong) graduated from Hunter College of The City University of New York in 1975. A former foreign correspondent and photojournalist for Time and the Associated Press, Liu was posted to China, the United States, Korea, India, and the former Soviet Union between 1976 and 1988. As a photojournalist, he documents daily life. Liu lives and works in Beijing.

M+ Exhibition History

M+ Sigg Collection: Four Decades of Chinese Contemporary Art, 23 February 2016 to 05 April 2016

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