Book on the country's last monkey trainers

Chinese photographer Ma Hongjie traveled across China for more than a decade documenting the lives of people who train monkeys for roadside shows, once a popular form of entertainment in China, but now on the decline.

People used to watch monkeys perform tricks and paid their trainers, not just in China but also in other parts of the world.

Today, aside from a few surviving circuses, people are shunning animal shows everywhere. In China, urban management authorities mostly forbid monkey trainers from using public areas for the purpose, and sometimes even fine them heavily.