'... Lazy Man in China is John Martin's witty, perceptive, self-deprecating take on China, drawn from letters to family and friends, and edited and updated by his wife, former Beijing correspondent Helene Chung.
John Martin, the self-dubbed lazy man, accompanied Chung and worked as "the token Australian and the token man" in the Australian embassy aid section. His images are shot through with colour, ironic humour and insight as Old Communism gives way to New Capitalism. He didn't live to see the China that Chung experienced in 2002, the cosmopolitan China of BMWs, new rich, new poor and a Tiananmen Square emptied on the thirteenth anniversary of the massacre by a World Cup soccer game viewed on giant screens.' Source: http://www.helenechung.com/ (Sighted 22/09/10)
