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Red Cliff Village
Fu Baoshi Chinese
Not on view
Represented here is a site in Chongqing that Fu did not consider a suitable painting subject until he viewed it again from his new political perspective. In his inscription, Fu writes:
Red Cliff Village, located near the Hualong Bridge in Chongqing, was the headquarters of a bureau of the Communist Party’s Central Committee during the Sino-Japanese War. Some of the leading figures of the reactionary [Nationalist] Party lived in the vicinity. The marker under the banyan tree pointed the way. To the right was headquarters; to the left, enemy [Nationalist] territory. Imagine the intensity of the conflicts. Thus the masses call it yinyang tree. I had passed by this spot once or twice in the past, but only recorded it now, after 14 years.
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