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? Another highlight of the exhibition is a portrait of Qi Baishi, the godfather of modern Chinese painting. Taken just a few months before his death, the photograph depicts an frail old man accompanied by a quite sinister looking carer. ‘I think that this woman had been hired to watch Qi Baishi’ considers Loh. ‘Look at her, that expression is not one of compassion or care’. ? Perhaps most fascinating of all is a picture of a father watching his daughter practice piano. It is a beautiful photograph in itself, but the story which Loh tells me is truly incredible. ‘I researched the identities of the two people in this photo. The father, Sun Fuling was director of the Fuxing Flour Factory. He suffered during the Cultural Revolution, but he is still alive today. Meanwhile, the little girl, Sun Chongwen, is now professor at Beijing’s China Conservatory of Music, and here we have a photograph of her beginning that journey.’ ? Elsewhere, the exhibition captures the myriad traditional cultural forms that re-emerged in early 1957, including shadow puppet shows, ????????????????????????????????????????????I????????????????????????
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