Huang Xinbo (1915 -1980) Taishan, Guangdong

In 1933 Huang joined the Left-Wing Artists' Union in Shanghai and, with Liu Xian (b. 1915, Henan), organized the No Name Woodblock Society, under the patronage of Lu Xun. After the Japanese invasion, Huang went, in 1938, to Wuhan, where he was one of the organizers of the All-China Association of Anti-Enemy Woodcutters and, afterwards, its director. When Wuhan was attacked, he moved with the association's headquarters to Guilin and then to Guiming. In Hong Kong, in 1946, he worked as a journalist and also was coorganizer of the Society for Pictures of the Human World. Huang joined the Communist guerrilla forces that marched into Guangzhou in 1949. He has held the positions of director of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art and vice-chairman of the council of the Chinese Artists' Association.

115. Keep Standing Up-Uprising of the Guangdong Red Army 1961 49 x 37.5 cm Black and white; oil-based ink, with hand-colored red, on Chinese paper Signed and title inscribed by the artist The print refers to the 1927 campaign by Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) to exterminate al Communists in the city of Guangdong (Canton). When the battle was over, five thousand people had been killed by the Nationalist forces. Huang depicts the Communist resistance.