MADE IN CHINA
China is a land where ‘the traditional tea ceremony is being replaced by soft-drink machines’, according to Magnum photographer Philip Jones Griffiths in the foreword to Jones’s photo book Made in China (2002). For six years Jones travelled through the country with its 1.3 million residents, in search of the people who are hidden behind the growing flood of products with the label ‘Made in China’. His photographs show the lightning fast and radical changes that its 5000 year old culture is undergoing under the influence of the West.
