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Book - The Forgotten People, The State of Chinese Psychiatric Wards 

Lu-Nan 

"It took Lu 15 years to complete his trilogy of photographs, three sets of a total of 225 pictures.
Art critic Li Xianting said that the trilogy, including the first set about patients at mental hospitals, the second set about the pilgrimage of Chinese Catholic devotees, and the third set about the life of Tibetan peasants, was a symbol of men's modern mentality, and represented Lu's hope for men's great mentality to be restored.
Lu Nan says it would be enough for him if his pictures were appreciated by five people in the next 25 years.

In 2009, Lu completed taking pictures of inmates at a Myanmar... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Zhang Shuhua... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Heilongiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongiang. 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Zhang Xiaping, from Yunnan, is 27 years... 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental hospital. 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental Hospital Beijing. The Girl is 11... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Mental Hospital Sichuan. Xie Zhimei’s daughter... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. In Xie Zhimei’s (r) family of four, his... 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Mental Hospital Guizhou. Two brothers live... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Unable to speak,... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Mental Hospital.
Husband and wife were... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Tao Shimao, 22 years old, was the only... 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Due to lack of money, 46-year-old Lei Chunrong... 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Mental Hospital Guizhou. The hospital has... 

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CHINA. Shanxi. 1989. Miao Yujiu, age 33, has been afflicted for... 

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CHINA. Yunnan. 1990. Mental Hospital Yunnan. 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. Sufferers... 

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CHINA. Shaanxi. 1990. Mental Hospital Shaanxi. 

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CHINA. Shanxi. 1990. Mental Hospital Shanxi. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Wan Yousheng,... 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Mental Hospital Guizhou. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Patients bathing.... 

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CHINA. Guangxi. 1990. Mental Hospital Guangxi. This is a ward... 

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CHINA. Guangxi. 1990. Mental Hospital Guangxi. 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Zhang Runxian, age 23, has been afflicted... 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Wang Mingcai, age 28, has been afflicted... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Vagrant Sufferer Sichuan. 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Jia Wenying is 39 years old. Since her... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Wang Jianguo, age 40, has been afflicted... 

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CHINA. Shanxi. 1990. 19-year-old Wang Pingzhe (l) supports a... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Mental Hospital Sichuan. 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Mental Hospital Sichuan. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Yang Jun, age... 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental Hospital Beijing. 

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CHINA. Tianjing. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjing. Han Min, age... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Meng Zhaolan,... 

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CHINA. Heilongiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. A mental... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. This mental patient... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Chen Jinming,... 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Tang Mingji is 45 years old. Her husband... 

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CHINA. Yunnan. 1990. 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental Hospital Beijing. 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental Hospital Beijing. 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental Hospital Beijing. 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Mental Hospital Sichuan. 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 
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