Zheng, Gu, with artist interview by Meg Maggio. LIU ZHENG: The Chinese. Introduction by Christopher Phillips; 144 pp., roughly 100 b&w photographs. 4to, boards. Gottingen, Steidl Verlag in asssociation with New York, The International Center of Photography, 2004.
Taking August Sander's project on Germans as an inspiration, Zheng began a photographic portrait of the Chinese people in 1994.