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| | Assignment: Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | In fact, the pictures in Assignment Shanghai are notable for their foreshadowing of events to come. |
 | | The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war. |
 | | Today these everyday scenes of ordinary people--pedicab drivers, street vendors, bar girls, police, politicians, prisoners--tell a story of national resilience and dignity in the midst of enveloping poverty, repression, and fear. |
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