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Exhibition
Picturing Power:
Art and Propaganda in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
31.1.-28.2.2001 Universitätsmuseum Heidelberg
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Sending a Letter to Little Friends in Taiwan
Xiner shaogei Taiwan xiao pengyou
Xie Congrong and Lin Yongquan
1975, Liaoning
A group of Little Red Guards are composing a
letter to the children of Taiwan. An envelope
reads To Taiwanese friends, From Guangming
Primary School. Photographs to be enclosed
show off the Peoples Republics
achievements and include an atomic mushroom
cloud, which indicates nuclear capabilities and
sends an implied threat, in contrast with the
superficially cosy scene. While a little girl
sews, two of the boys are armed with a spear and
a bat.
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