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Wu Biduan (b. 1926)

Portrait of the Chinese Writer—Mr. Lu Xun

1988

Woodblock print

43 x 35 cm

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Lu Xun is shown seated here before of the text of a poem he wrote and included in an essay called “Remembrance for the Sake of Forgetting". The essay expressed his grief and rage over the execution by the Guomindang of five members of the League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai in 1931. Lu Xun said that he couldn’t publish the poem at the time, so in commemoration, he published instead a copy of Kollwitz’s Sacrifice (see no. 10).

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