Prints 印刷图

This piece is displayed in celebration of Women’s History Month. All women, as a group, in all cultures, under all governments deserve equal celebration. There is a little red book of Mao’s quotes like this one. She is wearing a Mao button like this one.…

An oil panting of a new young doctor working at the fishing docks during the Cultural Revolution. Click to like.

Liangshan is the Yi Autonomous Prefecture located in Sichuan Province. They are sitting in a train car making announcements. The man is of the Yi Nationality. The insignia on his teacup is the railroad insignia like this pin. The Yi people are the 6th largest…

The painting was done in 1977, the Cultural Revolution ended in 1976.

Two plates from an animated story book.

The Chinese name includes the characters 青春 “youthful spring,” which refers to the youthful beauty in a person’s appearance.

The Chinese name, 源远流长 (yuán yuǎn liú cháng) is a four-character phrase 成语 that literally means “The source is distant and the flow is long.” It brings awareness of the length of time that water has flowed and infers a comparison to time reaching back…

The name comes from a poem by Mao Zedong called “Three Short Poems” 1934 – 1935. 山 Mountains! 快马加鞭未下鞍。I whip my swift horse, glued to my saddle. 惊回首，I turn my head startled, 离天三尺三。The sky is three foot three above me!

Norman Bethune was a Canadian surgeon who volunteered to help the People’s Liberation Army in the 1930s. Mao held him up as a model for emulation. See an animated storybook of Norman Bethune here and another collection of storybook pages here.