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ISBN: 978-988-17742-5-5
Paperback, 148 pages
Full colour
Size: 16 x 12 cm
Price: HK$85 /
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 Sleeping
Chinese
by Bernd Hagemann
HUMOUR /
PHOTOGRAPHY / CHINA
We hear news reports of the rise of China and
its sleepless economy, often with sinister undertones supposed to alarm
us. The reality can look very different.
German photographer
Bernd Hagemann has long been fascinated by China and its people. He
carries his camera at all times, because on every street corner you can
find people napping in the strangest positions and situations, even
snoring in deep slumber.
“When China wakes, she will shake the world,”
warned Napoleon. This may be true. But let’s not forget that hardworking
people need their sleep too.
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MEDIA ATTENTION
"An amateur photographer
gained a global following by taking snaps of slumbering mainlanders" –
South China Morning Post
"Chinese show the art of
extreme napping: A German photographer has spent six years taking
photographs of Chinese people sleeping in any position and situation." –
The Daily Telegraph
"China’s passion for the siesta is captured
at Sleeping Chinese, where Shanghai photographer Bernd Hagemann has
put up over 700 photographs of Chinese sleeping in seemingly impossible
positions: under trucks, on shopping carts, scooters and butcher slabs,
vividly illustrating the millions of weary masses who helped power the
nation’s economic rise. On his site
– which has attracted almost
half a million visitors
– Mr. Hagemann wrote that he
started his site to show the outside world the less threatening side of
China’s rise."
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The Wall Street Journal
– The Daily Mail
"Há dois anos,
Hagemann decidiu reunir as dezenas de imagens que tem de chineses a dormir
e publicou-as num site – sleepingchinese.com – que se tornou um sucesso:
recebeu mais de 1,3 milhões de visitas e atraiu a atenção dos órgãos de
comunicação social de todo o mundo. O site não
passou despercebido à editora independente de Hong Kong Blacksmith Books,
que vai lançar para o mercado um livrinho (do tamanho de um cartão postal)
no próximo mês, chamado Sleeping Chinese."
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