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Congratulations on the brilliant special report on China by Michael Demarest and Carl Mydans [Oct. 23]. A perfect blending of the pictorial and reportorial, making one feel the pulse of modern China, whose doors are now being reopened to the rest of the world...
Mydans and Demarest are among the first American journalists permitted to make such an extensive tourist's journey China. Mydans, who shot more than 100 rolls of film his visit, was amazed to discover how receptive the Chinese were to having their pictures taken. "In the 1940s " says Mydans, "most Chinese avoided being photographed because they believed that the camera catches the soul as well as the image; But today they are relaxed, willing and smiling in front of the camera...
...Demarest, one of TIME'S most versatile writers and a man who has handled assignments from De Gaulle to gourmet cooking, was as impressed as his companion by the Chinese he saw, calling the country "Communism with a smile." Mike remembers Mydans working day after day as if he wanted to capture that expression on a a billion faces. "Carl chased around China like a mountain goat," says Demarest. "He was patient, inexhaustible and, above all, unflappable...
TIME'S three Americans abroad represent a special blend of journalistic talent and experience, and they treated their subject with enthusiasm and affection. As caught by Demarest's pen and Mydan's camera, todays China comes alive in rare and memorable fashion...
...Lindblad Explorer on a recent trip from Tokyo to Hong Kong were 103 single-class passengers paying about $3,500, two American Sinologists and three tour guides, led by Travel Entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad, known to the Chinese as Lin-bladder. The group included TIME Senior Writer Michael Demarest and old China hands Photographer Carl Mydans and his reporter-wife Shelley...