HKU students get history lesson of China and Russia through the lens of photojournalist Liu Heung Shing

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On the second floor of the University of Hong Kong’s main library, students stop to look at the works of Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing.

One of the photos features the removal of a giant portrait of Chinese leader Mao Zedong from a museum near Tiananmen Square in the 1980s.

The students say the photos bring to life two of the biggest events in the last quarter of the 20th century, as opposed to simply reading history textbooks – the rise of China through its drastic economic…

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