Sentences with phrase «cultural revolution era»

In the early 1970s, he began a private study of oil painting, although he was assigned an official Cultural Revolution era job as a steel beam construction worker.

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«Many people wanted to «return to the countryside,»» recalls Liu, referring to a Cultural Revolution - era program that sent urban youths to rural China in order to work on farms.

«A struggle session was a form of public humiliation and torture used by the Communist Party of China in the Mao Zedong era, particularly during the Cultural Revolution, to shape public opinion and to humiliate, persecute, or execute political rivals and class enemies.

The sacred forests have effectively protected old - growth trees from clear - cutting for centuries despite major upheavals in the region's history, including the logging era and the Cultural Revolution.

The protagonists grew up from the streets in Cultural Revolution, the most turmoil era of Chinese capital, therefore established an unique lifestyle and social rule.

K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

What cultural revolutions are captured in the novel, from Britain's colonial era through the aftermath of the 1960s?

For artists who grew up with the Cultural Revolution's legacy of oppressive political and artistic controls, the new era demanded fresh experiments in the language of expression.

Recent group exhibitions include Focus Beijing, De Heus - Zomer Collection, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (2014); the groundbreaking show ON OFF: China's Young Artists in Concept and Practice, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013), a comprehensive survey of the generation of Chinese artists born at the end of the Cultural Revolution and at the dawn of the country's era of reform; as well as the 2013 California - Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, showcasing the most innovative art produced throughout the Pacific rim.

Both the original shows are representative of the revolution from below that characterized the New York art world in the postmodernist era, particularly the influence of punk and street cultures on an emerging generation of artists involved less in conceptual than social and cultural issues.

Younger Chinese artists — those who grew up after the Cultural Revolution in the era of hyper - capitalism — can still feel a connection to the Mogaoku.

Jiang's book publications include Burden or Legacy: from the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Contemporary Art (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), the Revolution Continues: New Art from China (Jonathan Cape, 2008), Red: China's Cultural Revolution (Jonathan Cape, 2010) and An Era without Memory: Chinese Contemporary Photography on Urban Transformation (Thames and Hudson, 2015), and he is Principal Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (Intellect).

There is «Ton of Tea,» by Ai Weiwei, a huge cube of expensive Pu'er tea that resembles a Chinese Donald Judd, and «Diary, by Zhang Huan, a canvas based on a Cultural Revolution - era photo of a man in a Mao suit holding a book.