Monograph created by Jonathan Browning documenting his photographic project: Glorious! : In Search of China’s New elite. 

The book contains over 70 images created by the photographer between 2014-2016, which document the people who were part of China's social elite at the time. The portraits document the country's social elite which had emerged after China's post-reform years of the 1990s who were dramatically different from the political class which had guided the country since 1949.  Photographed at both home and work the participants feature a wide  range of professions "from bankers and art dealers to tech entrepreneurs, fashion designers and property developers". The book provides a snapshot of this social class in the process of defining itself in a country which was "still coming to terms with its status as a 21st-century superpower"

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