Cao Zhenfeng: A young Chinese artist in the communist army

This is the true and unabridged story of Cao Zhenfeng (1926-2006). Here, the reader will find a certain Chinese point-of-view on some events of the twentieth century that changed the world. Nicknamed "Huzi", he was born into poverty, when warlords were fighting civil wars, Japanese bombing civilians, and militias loyal to Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) were conducting summary executions of suspected communists. So at twelve he joined the communist Eighth Route Army, "to fight the Japanese and save China." Huzi then had many adventures, with some narrow escapes, but he could draw, and read and write, which was rare in those days. He served as a pictorial-journalist at the front lines of three wars - the Anti-Japanese War, China's Civil War, and the Korean War. His illustrated reports were widely distributed to the leadership, and to the troops, local folks and peasants, who were mostly illiterate. Finally, in 1953,twenty-seven years old, he "retired" from the combat army. This book ends there; he went on to become an authority on Chinese folk art, and Deputy Director of China's National Art Museum.

• | Author: Lanjing Zhou, Cao Jinqiu
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: Nov 07, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 431 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1706246803
• | ISBN-13: 9781706246800