{"id":558,"date":"2015-03-27T08:37:43","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/?p=558"},"modified":"2025-01-03T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T20:48:43","slug":"china-1980s-people-of-inner-mongolia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/china-1980s-people-of-inner-mongolia\/","title":{"rendered":"China 1980s &#8211; People of Inner Mongolia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A retrospective of the people of Inner Mongolia, 1981-83<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Working on a project at Wengniute in Inner Mongolia in the early 1980s when China was in its initial phase of \u201copening up\u201d was a privileged and immensely rewarding experience. The project had a very high status in Beijing, and was well publicised. A heady experience for a young man on his first overseas assignment.<\/p>\n<p>The photographs exhibited here represent a selection of the extensive landscape and people photographs I made during that time.<\/p>\n<p>The people remain at the foremost of my memories of the Wengniute experience. So it is appropriate that those people are the subject of this series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-561\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pshim0007-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Inner Mongolia, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-562\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pshim0033-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Inner Mongolia, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the photographs you will see work counterparts and their families, interpreters, drivers, cooks and gardener, gatherings at the local cooperative store, outdoor film shows, the naadam (Mongolian tournament) and, of course, banquets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-563\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/pshim0052-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Inner Mongolia, China\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I chose black and white as the medium because it conveys the lives and character of the people so well.<\/p>\n<p>The collection is a unique record of that time and place.<\/p>\n<p>The series is presented in this <a title=\"gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/?page_id=20\">gallery<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively the series, set to the music of Hanggai, may be viewed as a video on Vimeo:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"People of Inner Mongolia, China, early 1980s.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/147080315?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A retrospective of the people of Inner Mongolia, 1981-83. Working on a project at Wengniute in Inner Mongolia in the early 1980s when China was in its initial phase of \u201copening up\u201d was a privileged and immensely rewarding experience. The project had a very high status in Beijing, and was well publicised. A heady experience &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/china-1980s-people-of-inner-mongolia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;China 1980s &#8211; People of Inner Mongolia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,79,87,100,102,88,75,72,104,103],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-1980s","tag-black-and-white","tag-china","tag-focal-scape","tag-historical","tag-mongolia","tag-people","tag-photography","tag-video","tag-vimeo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pastoralsystems.co.nz\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}