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Article: Nude Photos Controversial in China (2)
- Article from:
- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 29, 2000
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A journalist said she had many nude photos taken during her
pregnancy. "It is my history and also the growth history of my
daughter," she said. "I would have done as Zhen Zhen has done if
people in my time lived the way they live today." Nude art has
always been a very sensitive topic in China.
A Chinese exhibition of nude paintings in the mid-1980s stirred
up the hottest debate ever over this branch of art. The husband of a
women who had modeled nude for some of the paintings threatened her
with divorce when she was recognized by others in the pictures.
To date, there is no law in China which prohibits taking nude
photos. "Taking nude ...