Cheering the latest directives from Chairman Mao [China.org.cn]

Photographer:

Weng Naiqiang was born in Jakarta in 1936 and studied in Wu Zuoren's oil-painting studio of the China Central Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s. He was photographic director of the Japanese department of People's China newspaper and founded the photography department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts, becoming the first dean.

 

"Educated Young People in the North" was produced in the 1960s when the "educated people to the countryside" movement swept China and altered the life of almost every Chinese. The educated young people of northeast China were a typical group of individuals who lived through this radical social change. Weng photographed real-life and work scenes of his subjects without posing them, which was unusual at that time. Thus the series of pictures serve as an academic and historical treasure. (Curator: Zeng Huang)