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From Eggplant by Alice Fitzgerald and Thomas Geoghegan.

‘Eggplant!’ (‘Chiezi!’) is the Chinese equivalent of ‘Smile!’ or ‘Cheese!’ — an instruction given by photographers to get subjects to smile.

Soldiers photographing each other in formation, Tiananmen Square, Beijing

On Lion Hill, above Lijiang old town, Yunnan Province

Down with Jazz: The Anti-Jazz Campaign of the 1930s.

Jazz, the campaign argued, was “abominable” music that originated in central Africa and was exported to the West by “a gang of wealthy Bolshevists in the USSR to strike at church civilisation throughout the world.”

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An iPhone upload test.