Red Lens of Zhou Enlai

Author: Du Xiuqian
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: One book, one history, one hundred photos. The eternal moments captured by the red lens and the untold stories beyond them. The red wall photographer Du Xiuqian documented Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai in politics and daily life, while the red wall female writer Gu Baozi recorded the stories behind each photo. These photos and stories satisfy people's curiosity about the work and life details of the older generation of leaders and allow readers to understand the lives, work, and emotions of the leaders of the new China from an ordinary person's perspective.
Starting in the 1960s, Du Xiuqian became the special photographer for Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, capturing countless brilliant and precious historical moments. The moments in the red lens show us the familiar, generous, and rigorous Premier Zhou Enlai; while Du Xiuqian, the man who captured these precious moments with the red lens, also brought us the truth beyond the instant with his emotional memories. The red wall female writer Gu Baozi, with her delicate brushwork, transformed Du Xiuqian's recollections into beautiful words, allowing us to feel and understand Premier Zhou Enlai in the red lens with an ordinary person's heart.
This book uses these photos as a to show readers the political and diplomatic career of the Premier of the new China. At the same time, as the photographer himself had a unique job, he could more truly see the hidden sensitivity, kindness, generosity, and rigor in Premier Zhou Enlai's life, and more genuinely portray the great image of the Premier through the red lens.
The topic of the work and life of leaders is timeless. The original "Red Lens" vividlyed the group portrait of the first generation of leaders of the new China, including their work, life, and emotional states. Seven years later, Du Xiuqian, the special photographer for Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai who provided photos for the original "Red Lens," reorganized the old photos he had taken himself and carefully selected the work and life photos he had specifically taken of Chairman Mao and Premier Zhou. He proudly launched the leader-themed series "Red Lens": "Mao Zedong in the Red Lens" and "Zhou Enlai in the Red Lens."