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        "tombstone": "Xianjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xianjiang Province, 1996. Liu Zheng (Chinese, b. 1969). Gelatin silver print; paper: 45.7 x 45.7 cm (18 x 18 in.); matted: 71.1 x 66 cm (28 x 26 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 2012.105. Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery \u00a9 Liu Zheng",
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        "title": "Xianjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory, Hetian, Xianjiang Province",
        "creation_date": "1996",
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        "department": "Photography",
        "collection": "PH - Misc. 20th Century",
        "type": "Photograph",
        "measurements": "Paper: 45.7 x 45.7 cm (18 x 18 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 66 cm (28 x 26 in.)",
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        "copyright": "Courtesy of the artist and Eli Klein Gallery \u00a9 Liu Zheng",
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        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 524148,
                    "title": "Refocusing Photography: China at the Millenium",
                    "description": "<i>Refocusing Photography: China at the Millenium</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 8-November 16, 2025).",
                    "opening_date": "2025-06-08T04:00:00"
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                "description": "Artist; Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg; Cleveland Museum of Art",
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        "did_you_know": "<em>Xinjiang Girl Working in a Textile Factory </em>is very close in composition and subject matter to Lewis Hine's images of girls working in cotton factories in the American South around 1900 (see 1991.294).<em><br></em>",
        "early_education_description": null,
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        "description": "From 1991 to 1997, Zheng Liu worked for a newspaper, creating images that were supposedly documentary but instead presented a fictional, idealized view of life in China. The burgeoning individual prosperity and increasing openness to the West, meanwhile, was contributing to the rise of the photographer-artist in China, whose work fulfilled personal expressive needs rather than governmental ends. In 1994, Zheng took on this new role as he began <em>The Chinese</em>, a seven-year independent project to chronicle Chinese society. Lewis Hine's photographs had a narrower purpose: raising awareness of the evils of child labor.",
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80077663"
            ],
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        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Zhao, Yechen. \u201c\u00c9clairer la R\u00e9publique Populaire de Chine: Les photographies au flash de Liu Zheng et l'histoire de l'\u00e9lectricit\u00e9 chinoise.\u201d <em>Photographica</em> n. 11 (October 2025): 136-156.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 152; Reproduced: p. 153",
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        "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
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                "description": "Liu Zheng (Chinese, b. 1969)",
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        "accession_date": "2012-12-03T00:00:00",
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        "updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:53:16.735000"
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