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From Purgatory to Paradise : An Oral History of Artist Han Meilin from the Cultural Revolution to the Present Day

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 1838905383
ISBN-13 9781838905385
Publisher ACA Publishing Limited
Imprint Sinoist Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Feb 27th, 2023
Print length 280 Pages
Weight 354 grams
Dimensions 21.50 x 14.20 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification: Oral history
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Renowned artist Han Meilin gives an oral history of the harrowing events that turn his life and fledgling artistic career upside down during the unforgiving times of China's Cultural Revolution.
Han Meilin is a titan of contemporary Chinese art, his works have drawn worldwide recognition. For Meilin, realising his artistic dreams came at a price, as he suffered a decade of despair. But behind the fame, he bears the scars of the Cultural Revolution. In conversation with Feng Jicai, an expert on 1960's China, Meilin recounts his turbulent path to Paradise.

Han Meilin is a titan of contemporary Chinese art, from Olympic mascots to the tails of planes, his works have drawn worldwide recognition. But behind the fame, he was forged in the crucible of China’s Cultural Revolution.

In an uncertain political landscape where suspicion itself was as good as proof, the very thing that gave him purpose - his passion for art - doomed him to an indefinite Purgatory behind bars in No. 100 Dongshan detention centre. Branded a traitor to the revolution, he faced a decade of despair, but at its cruel depths, he discovered the values which would shape him as an artist.

Now in conversation with the premier storyteller on China’s turbulent 1960s, Meilin recounts his turbulent path to Paradise. Filled with first-hand accounts of his complex relationship with the suffering he endured, and the many ways it continues to reverberate in the hyper-commercial today of the Middle Kingdom.


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