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Working at the Beijing Wireless Factory in 1974
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The First Shanghai Youth Sent to Xinjiang in 1963
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The Leadership Votes in Favor of the Great Leap Forward in May 1958
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Mao and Ho Chi Minh Take A Walk in December 1957
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Xi Zhongxun and Qi Xin at Yan’an, 1947
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An Old Man in Wuxi, 1964
This photo was taken by René Burri during his 1964 trip to China. For more on Burri.
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Liu Qimin, Ten Thousands Boats Waiting to Set Sail,1962
刘其敏, 万帆待发, 1962 A claustrophobic rush into the sea all at once of too much - an allegorical painting about the Great Leap?
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Liao Youkai, Holiday Nights, 1972
廖有楷，节日之夜， 1972 This painting epitomizes the emphasis on work at the time. Labor was what Chinese should want to do at all times, even on their holiday nights.
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Trauma, Narrative, and the Absence of Closure
Trauma, Narrative, and the Absence of Closure By Covell Meyskens In this paper, some of the relationships between trauma, bearing witness, healing, and narrative are articulated in light of the ideas of Brison, Laub, and Brown. A traumatic event ruptures, if not utterly demolishes, one’s sense of self. One loses one’s bearings in... Continue Reading →
Everyday Life in Mao's China 