Intro Teaser
Henri Cartier-Bresson famously photographed the final days of the Chinese Civil War. Remarkably, an exhibition of these historic images was slated for both Taipei and Beijing—two capitals with diametrically opposed views of that history. The Beijing showing was cancelled due to COVID-19, but the exhibition opened at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum in late 2020. David Frazier examines its reception in Taiwan, considers how it might have been received in Beijing, and explores the thorny historical and political context.
