| October 30, 2005 |
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Red-Color News Soldier
The  revolution may not be televised, but China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was photographed surreptitiously. Journalist Li Zhensheng took thousands of pictures of the decade of Mao Zedong–inspired turmoil, but he had to hide them under the floorboards of his home because Chinese authorities considered his images "counterrevolutionary." Not until 2003 were the photos displayed publicly, and this site highlights excerpts from that exhibition. Five sections chronicle the events of the years leading up to the revolution, the start in 1966, the violent years of 1966 to 1968, the rise of a new power structure, and Mao's death in 1976 and its aftermath. The stark black-and-white pictures hint at the complicated, harrowing story of propaganda, labor camps, and Little Red Books. (in Asia) |
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