Sacred Shanghai - Hardcover

by Liz Hingley (Photographer)

Sacred Shanghai by photographer and anthropologist Liz Hingley, explores the spaces, rituals and communities - in official, unofficial, public and private forms - that together weave the spiritual fabric of China's largest and most cosmopolitan city. After decades of suppression during the Mao era, China has been undergoing one of the great religious revivals of our time. Unsettled by the pace of development and globalisation, millions are turning to faith for meaning and hope in the alienating mega cities that now dominate Chinese life.

Author Biography

Liz Hingley graduated with a BA Honors in Photography from the University of Brighton in 2007 and was then offered a two-year scholarship at FABRICA, where she made Under Gods: Stories from Soho Road. Between 2013-16 she was a Visiting Scholar of the Academy of Social Sciences in China and produced two books: Shanghai: End of Lines, and Shanghai Sacred. Her work has been published in Time, Le Monde, the Guardian, Financial Times, The Economist and New Scientist, amongst others.