HERE BE GIANTS

Gwendolyn Stewart

A QUARTER-CENTURY OF
POLITICAL-PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATIONS OF
THAT BROAD SWATH OF THE EURASIAN LANDMASS
FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE SINO-SOVIET SPACE

In lands beyond our ken, we see giants, and sometimes monsters --
and sometimes fantasies of a rosier hue --
a quarter-century -- a generation -- ago --
the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union were largely such lands --
about to wake, as it happens,
to transform themselves -- to shake off settled ways --
and now, with talk of a New Cold War and The Chinese Century,
we seem almost back again to
Lands Beyond Our Ken.

"POWER HUG":   Boris Yeltsin Meets Jiang Zemin in the Great Hall of the People, Beijing, China, November 10, 1997
EXHIBIT Announcement by MELANIE WANG; All Photographs by GWENDOLYN STEWART, c. 2009; All Rights Reserved

Coming:   HERE BE GIANTS (The Book)

Baikalsk Beijing Brest Bukhara Butka Chengdu Cologne Dolinsk Ft. Knox Guangzhou Hangzhou
Harbin Helsinki Irkutsk Ji'an Jinggangshan Kaifeng Khanty-Mansiisk Kharbarovsk
Kholmsk Kiev Kizhi Korsakov Krasnoyarsk Kunming Leningrad Lima
Listvyanka Luoyang Lushan Moscow Nadym Nanjing Nefteyugansk
Novocherkassk Novosibirsk Okha Oryol Petrozavodsk Pskov Qingdao Qufu Riga
Rostov-na-Donu Rybnovsk St. Petersburg Salaspils Samarkand Shanghai
Sochi Sverdlovsk Taian Tashkent Tbilisi Tokyo Tyumen Volgograd
Washington Xi'an Yan'an Yuzhnosakhalinsk Zhengzhou

GWENDOLYN STEWART is both a photojournalist and a political scientist specializing in political leadership in Russia, China, and the U.S.   A former Bunting/Radcliffe Fellow, she is an Associate (and former Post-Doctoral Fellow) of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, as well as an Associate in Research of the Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.   For the Fairbank Center she co-founded and co-chairs the China Current Events Workshop, a forum for examining pressing issues in Greater China.   Her Harvard Ph.D. dissertation (Sic Transit) dealt with the role of the leaders of the republics, especially Boris Yeltsin, in the breakup of the Soviet Union.   She is currently writing RUSSIA REDUX, the story of Russia under Yeltsin and Putin: part political analysis, part travel-memoir.   Imagine wandering over the largest country on earth, not in the train of a railroad, but in the train of one of the most powerful and contradictory men on earth.   Or all by yourself.

FIRST JOURNEY:   ON THE SACRED WAY, WITH OFFICIAL

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Other Work by GWENDOLYN STEWART:

GWENDOLYN STEWART: MORE PHOTOGRAPHS & MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR/PHOTOGRAPHER

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A PICTURE A DAY, INCLUDING MORE PHOTOGRAPHS FROM HERE BE GIANTS

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PICTURE POLITICS         PERU SCENES

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THE BLOG

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JAMES A. BAKER    LEONARD BERNSTEIN    THE BIG DIG    BILL BRADLEY    GEORGE W. BUSH

BILL CLINTON          GAO XINGJIAN      MIKHAIL GORBACHEV      HU JINTAO     JIANG ZEMIN     JANIS JOPLIN

BARACK OBAMA      TIP O'NEILL     RICHARD PERLE     THE PHOENIX    THE POWER HUG     VLADIMIR PUTIN

RONALD REAGAN     THE RUSSIA HAND      RUSSIA REDUX      SAKHALIN     FREDERICK SALVUCCI

ANNE SEXTON     TOLKIEN'S WORLD    JOHN UPDIKE      DAN WAKEFIELD      BORIS YELTSIN     YELTSIN'S MIDNIGHT DIARIES

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