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Yang Keyang (1914-2010)

Professor

1947

Woodblock print

22 x 17 cm

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This is one of the best-known prints of the 1940s. Yang originally trained in cartoons, but here he uses the dramatic contrasts of the black and white woodblock print to condemn the harsh conditions of life at all levels of society. China suffered disastrous hyperinflation during the Civil War (1946-49), which did not stabilize until the early 1950s. Intellectuals had always held a position of status in China, but this professor had to sell his books to feed his family.

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