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Zeng Jingchu (1918-2001)

Portrait of Lu Xun

Undated

Woodblock print

21 x 29 cm

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This print imagines Lu Xun in Yan’an, symbolised by the pagoda on the hill. Yan’an was the communist base area and Party headquarters, after the Long March in 1935 through the Civil War in the late 1940s. Lu Xun never went to Yan’an, but sent Mao Zedong a congratulatory telegram and a canned ham when he learned of the Red Army’s safe arrival there. Many prints associate Lu Xun with revolutionary events, even if they occurred long after his lifetime.

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