I wanted to share a couple pages from this week, all with some relatively enormous photos of mine on them. Most of these photos have appeared on this blog in the past week — however, for those of you not in China, this is a chance to see how they appeared in print.

First, if you remember from last week my shoot with Yao Ming, the photo published today in the first ever Sunday edition of China Daily. For the past 30 years, China Daily has published in different increments; however, starting today — Sunday, August 2, 2010 China Daily has gone 7-days a week. The Sunday edition is more feature heavy than news heavy. Here’s today’s A1 with the Yao Ming portrait.

The Yao Ming blog entry generated a lot of traffic last week — and was actually picked up by a lot of Chinese media. Although the translation of my blog entry was a bit different, the headline used still makes me laugh: “Short man challenged by photographing Chinese giant.”

The Anhui trip generated a two page spread that appeared on Friday, across pages 18 and 19. The first page, about the Anhui Poverty Alleviation Program, followed by a travel story on Hefei, Anhui Province.

If you missed the post, here is the video that went with this article:

The last page prints in tomorrow’s (Monday’s) China Daily. Its a portrait of Chinese author Yu Hua.

Yu Hua (simplified Chinese: 余华; traditional Chinese: 余華; pinyin: Yú Huá) is a Chinese author, born April 3, 1960 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. He worked as a dentist for five years and later turned to fiction in 1983 because he didn’t like “looking into people’s mouths the whole day.” Writing allowed him to be more creative and flexible. He grew up during the Cultural Revolution and many of his stories and novels are marked by this experience. One of the distinctive characteristics of his work is his penchant for detailed descriptions of brutal violence[1]

It was very interesting to meet another Revolutionary writer, the last one being Poet Zhai Yongming 翟永明.

All four of these are good examples of the evolution of the new China Daily. Although these are all feature pages (with the exception of the A1), they show a lot of progress since before the redesign. If you haven’t seen what China Daily used to look like, there are before and after sample pages on my main site here.

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