Poetry Meets Politics in Photos of China Between violent flash points in history, Liu Heung Shing saw tenderness and subversive humor in societies saturated with propaganda. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/lens/liu-heung-shing-china-photos.html Liu Heung Shing looked outside the car window: an imposing portrait of Mao Zedong had disappeared from the east side of Tiananmen Square. It was 1981.