PICTURES AT THE CHINESE CULTURAL REVOLUTION

PICTURES AT THE REVOLUTION
US News & World Report - 9/30/03

"It's time for us all to understand what really happened."
-- Li Zhensheng, whose job was to chronicle the smiling facade of Mao's insurrection

Throughout the Chinese Cultural Revolution, Li Zhensheng was taking photographs--more than a 100,000 in all. For nearly 40 years, he hid the most disturbing negatives from government authorities bent on destroying evidence of the past. But in Red-Color News Soldier, published in the United States for the first time this month, Li, now 63, has brought forth an unprecedented vision of this dark chapter in Chinese history.

Photographs hidden for nearly 40 years show a dark chapter in Chinese history, when "life was a stage only":

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