Born on July 19, 1895, in Yixing, Jiangsu, Xu Beihong began learning painting from his father at a young age. He later moved to Shanghai to work part-time while continuing his studies, eventually traveling to Japan and France to further cultivate his artistic abilities. The Louvre Museum in France had a profound impact on Xu ...
In the spring of 1937, as the flamboyant kapok flowers adorned the streets of Hong Kong, Professor Hui Tat-Seng, Director of the Chinese Department at the University of Hong Kong, carefully navigated the fallen blossoms, hurrying back home. As soon as Professor Hui entered his courtyard, he called out: “Beihong!” It turned out that the ...
In 1896, at the age of 59, Wu Xun fell ill. This beggar, whose fame had already spread far and wide, continued to think day and night about raising money to establish even more free schools. Unwilling to spend money on medicine, he succumbed to his illness. He passed away in one of the very ...
During the Cultural Revolution, Wu Xun was labeled as a “traitor of the working people.” In the summer of 1966, Red Guards in Guan County, Shandong, smashed open Wu Xun’s tomb, destroyed his statue, and paraded his coffin through the streets. His bones were shattered by hammers and, along with the coffin, were ultimately burned ...
The Cultural Revolution erupted in 1966 and Xu Hongci became one of the first to be persecuted. Every one of his past “crimes” was dredged up and criticized anew. Paraded through the streets, bound and humiliated, he was once again sentenced, this time to 20 years. He was incarcerated in a prison in Lijiang specifically ...
Xu Hongci was once a shining star within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), so admired that his reputation was said to be “redder than red.” However, he later became a rightist criticized by the Party’s media. During the 14 years he spent in labor reform, he escaped prison four times, finally succeeding in his flight. ...
Kang Xinru was a prominent financial tycoon in the Republic of China. However, after 1949, he was gradually destroyed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and in the end, he was left a pauper with only a few items left to his name. How did a prominent banker go from being a millionaire to a ...
After a massive crackdown on private enterprises, and the economy tumbling to its lowest point in more than three decades, the end of 2022 saw the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) changing its attitude toward private entrepreneurs, now seeming to favor them. In a surprising turn, Xi Jinping stated: “I have always supported private enterprises,” and “We have ...
Gu Shengying, a prominent Chinese classical concert pianist, died on the last day of January 1967, a week before the Chinese New Year. She was a musical prodigy and a genius who had won countless accolades, and rightfully, she was supposed to be the glory and pride of a nation. However, during the Cultural Revolution, ...
This is a two-part story; please go here for Part 1 Before Xiong Dazhen died, he would never have imagined that decades later, his teacher Ye Qisun would also be persecuted because of him. After the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, the “Xiong Dazhen espionage case” was dug up again. Because Xiong Dazhen was a student of ...
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