A catalogue of the Ashmolean’s collection of Chinese prints from 1950-2006 by Weimin He and Shelagh Vainker (published Oxford, 2007).
The people’s smiling faces show traces of the style usually seen in the Cultural Revolution. However, this print also subtly conveys a new atmosphere, and it quickly became one of the most published prints of the late 1970s across China. This work is often regarded as a depiction of the artist’s own experience. Li Xiu is one of an extremely small number of Yi minority female printmakers.
Weimin He, and Shelagh Vainker, Chinese Prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2007), no. 47 on p. 56, illus. p. 56
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