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Shao Keping (1916-2010)

Street Corner

1947

Woodblock print

22 x 16 cm

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Shao Keping began his career making patriotic prints during the Second Sino-Japanese War. He and several others also operated a business making and distributing woodblock printing tools, materials and books. He continued his revolutionary work during the Civil War which followed. His dramatic black and white works condemned the harsh social and economic conditions of life under the Guomindang government. Inflation was astronomical; millions were unemployed, homeless and starving. Prints were a powerful weapon that the regime tried to suppress.

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Muban Educational Trust registration number shakp025