Las Vegas Weekly

February 3, 2010 · 12:35 PM

Photo Gallery: Historical Chinese photo exhibit opens at Crystals

By Robin Leach

Bill Hornbuckle, Madame Li and Bob Moon attend the welcoming ceremony for the historical Chinese photo exhibit Looking Back After 30 Years at Crystals in CityCenter on Feb. 2, 2010.

Photo: Denise Truscello/WireImage

The photography exhibit that opened yesterday in CityCenter’s retail palace Crystals captures 30 years of diplomatic history between the United States and China. Photographer Denise Truscello was at the welcoming ceremony when MGM Mirage Chief Marketing Officer Bill Hornbuckle greeted Madame Li Xiaolin and students from Beijing and welcomed them to the MGM’s 70-acre metropolis that opened in December.

The historical Chinese photo retrospective titled Looking Back After 30 Years is displayed chronologically in a four-part, 80-panel display, and it sprawls over the second and third levels of Crystals. Looking Back will be on display at Crystals until Feb. 22.

Madame Li, daughter of China’s former President Li, and Feng Xie, China envoy to the United States, declared the exhibit, which has toured Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing, New York and Washington, D.C., officially opened in the name of the Chinese Friendship Society.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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