Two portfolios of images from new books on China: Empire: Impressions from China by James Whitlow Delano and China Obscura by Mark Leong.
Dispatches from several photographers covering the Indian Ocean tsunamis and one from a photographer covering the orange revolution in Ukraine.
Dirck Halstead's entertaining look back at covering U.S. President Richard Nixon's historic visit to China in 1972. Highlights include tales of pungent longjohns gifted to network TV correspondents and the conservative shooting habits of UPI's Frank Cancellere, who cut his teeth on Speed Graphics.
