Letters from China

Tibet During the Cultural Revolution

The photographs were taken by Woeser (唯色)'s father, a Tibetan People's Liberation Army's officer:-

The Red Guards who damaged the Jokhang Temple.  Most of them were the students of Lhasa Secondary School.  There was a portrait of Mao Zedong.  The banner reads: "Completely destroy the old world!  We shall be the master of the new world."

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The Female Living Buddha and her parents were "criticised and struggled against".

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This photograph was shown to a Tibetan, who said: "Look, the windows were broken.  There's a big hole in the boy's sleeve.  He was even holding a script prepared by some others.  Did he really understand what he said?  The people around him were so confused.  It's like they were manipulated.  This is Tibet's Cultural Revolution."

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Buddhist classics were burnt outside the Jokhang Temple.

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Buddhist statues and ritual objects in the Jokhang Temple were destroyed by the Red Guards.

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Tibetan women "revolutionised"

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Apparently they were only primary school students.  They were not only brandishing the Quotations from Chairman Mao, but also wearing the red armbands, which suggests that they had joined the Red Guards.

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Images / Source:
Locus Publishing, the publisher of Forbidden Memory:Tibet During the Cultural Revolution (杀劫).

Earlier:
Cultural Revolution in Tibet

Cultural Revolution: Photographs

Rare colour photographs taken in 1966, the year when the Cultural Revolution began:-

Huge statue of Mao Zedong in a sea of red flags; the Chinese characters "无疆" mean "never die".

Apparently an assembly of Peking University students; the poster reads: To topple Soviet Revisionism, Quotation from Chairman Mao.

Giant propaganda poster: soldiers and worker hold the Selected Works of Mao Zedong.

The Little Red Book, Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

Images:
China Radio International / Editor: Chen Lei

Earlier:
The first casualty of Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution in Tibet

Cultural Revolution in Tibet

A Tibetan crowd waving the Little Red Book in front of Mao Zedong's portrait; the Revolutionary Committee was established in Tibet during the Cultural Revolution (Image: SingTaoNet)

Earlier:
Chairman Mao: Long live Dalai Lama!

Napping People's Congress

National People's Congress, Beijing, 2007 (via Wang Xiaofeng)

Link:
The banned photographs from the Liaoning People's Congress

Anti-Rightist Movement: Photos

In 1957, National Day marchers brandished a sign that said "Struggle against the Rightists resolutely".

Zhang Bojun, the then transport minister, was denounced by his colleagues during the Anti-Rightist Movement.

Many intellectuals were "pidou", or criticised and struggled against.

Photos:
Ming Pao

Tattooed Face of Derung Woman, Yunnan

Derung (or Dulong) woman with a tattooed face; Gongshan County, Nujiang Prefecture, Yunnan Province. (Image: Xinhua)