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On 25 November 1948, Henri Cartier-Bresson was commissioned by Life magazine to shoot a story on the “last days of Beijing” before the arrival of the Maoist troops. Having completed a trip for two weeks, he went on to stay for 10 months, mainly in the Shanghai area, witnessing the fall of the Nationalist-held city of Nanjing. He was forced to stay in Communist Shanghai for four months following this, leaving China a few days before the proclamation of the People’s Republic of China on 1 October 1, 1949.
