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====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]]==== | ====Medium: [[:Category:Literature|Literature]]==== | ||
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'''Artist:''' Ai Qing | '''Artist:''' Ai Qing (1910 - 1996) | ||
'''Confronting Bodies:''' Chinese Nationalist party and Chinese Communist party officials | '''Confronting Bodies:''' Chinese Nationalist party and Chinese Communist party officials | ||
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'''Location:''' Yan'an and Beijing, China | '''Location:''' Yan'an and Beijing, China | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' Ai Qing is best known for criticizing the Chinese government through his poetry. In his allegorical essays, | '''Description of Artwork:''' Ai Qing is best known for criticizing the Chinese government through his poetry. In his allegorical essays, ''The Yellow Bird'' and ''Dream of the Garden'', he criticizes the Maoist government's suppression of culture and silencing dissent. <P> | ||
'''The Incident:''' From 1932 - 1935 the Nationalist government imprisoned Ai Qing for participating in the Marxist Left Wing Artist Association. Following the Communist revolution, Qing disagreed with the party platform, separating politics from culture by silencing critical writers. Qing was sent for "re-education" in the Chinese countryside. When he returned, Mao implemented a more liberal cultural plan. Qing returned from his toil in the countryside and continued expressing his grievances with the party. When Qing argued in defence of another writer, Ding Ling, in 1958, the party scrutinized Qing's work; he returned to the countryside. <P> | '''The Incident:''' From 1932 - 1935 the Nationalist government imprisoned Ai Qing for participating in the Marxist Left Wing Artist Association. Following the Communist revolution, Qing disagreed with the party platform, separating politics from culture by silencing critical writers. Qing was sent for "re-education" in the Chinese countryside. When he returned, Mao implemented a more liberal cultural plan. Qing returned from his toil in the countryside and continued expressing his grievances with the party. When Qing argued in defence of another writer, Ding Ling, in 1958, the party scrutinized Qing's work; he returned to the countryside. <P> | ||