Preface - Introduction Li Zhensheng: Photographer for a Time of Troubles, by Jonathan Spence - Chapter 1 Trust the Masses, 1963-66 - Chapter 2 Bombard the Headquarters, 1966 - Chapter 3 The Red Sun in Our Hearts 1966-68 - Chapter 4 Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages 1969-75 - Chapter 5 Die Fighting 1976-1980 - Chronology - Biography
Li Zhensheng was born in Dalian, China in 1940. After studying film, he joined The Heilongjiang Daily as a photojournalist in 1963 and documented the Chinese Cultural Revolution. In 1987, a collection of twenty of his photos from the Cultural Revolution titled "Let History Tell the Future" was released and won the grand prize at China's National Press Association Photo Competition. Since October 1996 he has been a visiting scholar, lecturing on the Cultural Revolution at Harvard and Princeton universities. His work has appeared in Time, The New York Times Magazine, Der Spiegel (Germany), and Le Nouvel Observateur (France). Li, a Chinese citizen, is currently engaged in academic research, writing, and lecturing. Jonathan D. Spence is Sterling Professor of History at Yale University. He is the author of a distinguished body of work on the history of modern China, including the seminal book, The Search for Modern China (1990). The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Chinese and Their Revolution 1895-1980 (1981) was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History. Spence was named a MacArthur Fellow in 1988 and is established as a one of the foremost experts on modern China.
Book of the Week 'This collection of photos, taken by Li in the north-eastern province of Heilongjiang, where he worked for the official Communist party newspaper, is unique for a simple reason. Although the post-Mao Chinese government has labelled the cultural revolution "10 years of chaos", it still tries to suppress any real inquiry into the countless human tragedies it caused. ... This remarkable book, which still cannot be published on the mainland, is a salutary reminder that, in the Chinese phrase, accounts have yet to be settled with the past.' John Gittings, The Guardian, 20 September, 2003 'an illuminating and unique photographic collection' Times Higher Education Supplement, 19 September, 2003 'fascinating ... An excellent book.' Sarah Jackson, Amateur Photographer, 20 September, 2003 'Every shot is a harrowing legacy of the brutality, cruelty, and naivety of those times, when Mao and his followers sought to destroy all traces of the past.' Cate Devine, The Glasgow Herald, 12 September, 2003 "...an extraordinary picture of one of the most bizarre, complex and catastrophic episodes in China's history". Isabel Hilton, New Statesman, 29 September 2003 'Li's photographs are remarkable for their dramatic impact, but are also composed with utmost precision.' Peter Aspden, Financial Times, 2003 'The interweaving of autobiography, images with a strong narrative structure and an illuminating tranche of contextual writing is what makes this book so revealing and so engaging.' Morning Star, 2003
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