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Turning a Deep Chasm into a Thoroughfare
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Description
The title quotes Mao Zedong’s poem Swimming composed in June 1956: ‘A bridge will fly to span the north and south / Turning a deep chasm into a thoroughfare’. At that time Mao visited Changsha and Wuhan, and swam in the Yangzi River while the Wuhan Yangzi River Bridge (completed in October 1956) was still under construction.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Jiangsu province › Nanjing (place of creation)Asia › China › Hebei province › Beijing (place of publication)Asia › China › Jiangsu province (Nanjing Bridge) (subject)
- Date
- designed 1973 - printed November 1974
- Artist/maker
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after Wei Zixi (1915 - 2002) (artist)Wei Zixi (1915 - 2002) (calligrapher)Beijing Army Print (active c. November 1974) (printer)after Mao Zedong (Chairman Mao) (1893 - 1976) (author)
- Associated people
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People's Fine Arts Publishing House (established 1951) (publisher)Xinhua Bookstore (established 1937) (retailer)
- Material and technique
- lithograph
- Dimensions
- 37.7 x 53 cm (height x width)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 2006.
- Accession no.
- EA2006.202
Past Exhibition
see (1)-
Cultural Revolution: State Graphics in China in the 1960s and 1970s (II)
(from 11th Jul until 20th Nov 2011)
Location
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- currently in research collection
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