"...Before the mid-1980s photos in China were for weddings and family portraits, and government propaganda. They were carefully arranged and posed. In the late 1980s many people started to get more expendable income. A camera was an optional thing that few people owned, but some could afford one, and people who were really taken with photography started buying local equipment and learning how to use it. Very few had the money to buy foreign cameras. My Nikon was often admired but seldom matched... "

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