20th century china

20th Century China

Some Key Dates in 20th C China

• 1894-5 First Sino-Japanese War

• 1912, End of Qing Dynasty, Founding of Republic of China

• 1949 People’s Republic of China

• 1966-76, Cultural Revolution

• 1976 Death of Mao Tsetung

• Xu Beihong, Portrait of Lim Loh, 1927

Xu Beihong, Portrait of Ms Jenny (1939)

Grazing Horse, dated 1932Xu Beihong

• Xu Beihong, Sketch of Mr. Kinlo Cheng, 1937

• Xu Beihong, Portrait of Madame Cheng, 1941

Lady of the Xiang River, dated 1947Fu Baoshi (Chinese, 1904–1965)Album leaf; ink and color on paper; 10 1/2 x 12 7/8 in.

Landscape, 1946Artist: Fu Baoshi

61.2 x 92.4 cm (24 1/8 x 36 3/8 x 4.0 in.)Ink and color on paper

Fu Baoshi, Playing Weiqi at the Water Pavillion, mid 20th C

• Fu Baoshi, Landscape, 1964

• Fu Baoshi at work painting Beautiful Landscape of the Motherland for Great Hall of the People (1959).

Luo Gongliu, Tunnel Warfare, Oil on Canvas, 1951

Luo Gongliu (b. 1916)Mao Zedong Reporting on the Rectification in Yan'an1951

“The happy life that Chairman Mao has given us.“ 1952, Chinese Communist Party propaganda poster

Sun Zixi (b. 1929)In Front of Tiananmen1964

• Old Labor Revolutionary Team of the Vehicle Repair Section, Changxindian District, In Revolution There is Justice, July 1968

• Images of the Cultural Revolution

Rent Collection Courtyard, 1965

• This courtyard, built especially for the collection of rent, is surrounded by a hundred-meter long corridor in which stands the clay figures. Hungry peasants had to use the back door to pay rent."

"Under the cold gaze of the landlord’s stooge, the poverty-stricken peasants trudge into the courtyard carrying the grains they have toiled so bitterly for”

The trick winnower has reduced two full baskets of grain to one. With heavy hearts mother and daughter drag it to be measured.

Even a tottering, sick man has to drag in his rent on time

"Liu orders the village chief and a policeman to ransack the homes of peasants and pressgang them if they cannot pay their rent. Another family is broken up as the father is dragged away and the mother is knocked to the ground."

"With their carrying-poles they will smash the system of exploitation to bits

Kuomintang soldier and a secret society henchman lay hands on the old peasant’s son as he rushed up to argue with the landlord Liu

'This is good grain!' Cries the old peasant

Only by thoroughly demolishing the man-eating system can the working people be emancipated

Follow forever the Chinese Communist Party and raise high the red flag of revolution