The Path of Mao Zedong: An Illustrated Account of Mao Zedong and His Comrades

Author: Xu Xiaobing
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Xu Xiaobing, former president of the China Photographers Association, and Hou Bo, former president of the China Women Photographers Association, are a respected and seasoned couple of photographers. Over the quarter-century from 1937 to 1962, they captured a vast number of precious historical photographs of the proletarian revolutionaries such as Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, and the heroic figures of various historical periods. According to incomplete statistics, Mao Zedong left behind over 700 photographs in his lifetime, while Hou Bo alone took more than 400. Xu Xiaobing took dozens, mostly from before and shortly after the founding of the People's Republic of China, making them particularly valuable. The value of these photographs lies in their direct and emotional documentation of the history of the People's Republic of China from its inception, birth, and growth into maturity, as well as the generation of great figures who created this history. Anyone interested in understanding and researching that period of history should see these photographs and also understand what lies behind them—the events, the significance, and the value.