10 gelatin silver prints showing mass parade celebrating the founding of the XuZhou City Revolutionary Committee, militias, young students and workers celebrating the founding of the XuZhou Revolutionary Committee, carrying Mao’s photograph, statues and ‘quotations’ on their decorated truck-floats ‘Wish Chairman Mao Long Long Life’, ‘Resolutely Support the XuZhou City Revolutionary Committee’, ‘Warmly Celebrate the Founding of the XuZhou City Revolutionary Committee’, each 254 x 305 mm, Xu Zhou, Zhe Jiang Province, c.1967. *** XuZhou is one of the earliest places where the Revolutionary Committee was formed. Despite people’s happy celebration in these photographs, a year later because of different cliques of Red Guards competing for power, the conflict quickly escalated into armed battles on the streets, where many people lost their lives.
10 gelatin silver prints showing mass parade celebrating the founding of the XuZhou City Revolutionary Committee, militias, young students and workers celebrating the founding of the XuZhou Revolutionary Committee, carrying Mao’s photograph, statues and ‘quotations’ on their decorated truck-floats ‘Wish Chairman Mao Long Long Life’, ‘Resolutely Support the XuZhou City Revolutionary Committee’, ‘Warmly Celebrate the Founding of the XuZhou City Revolutionary Committee’, each 254 x 305 mm, Xu Zhou, Zhe Jiang Province, c.1967. *** XuZhou is one of the earliest places where the Revolutionary Committee was formed. Despite people’s happy celebration in these photographs, a year later because of different cliques of Red Guards competing for power, the conflict quickly escalated into armed battles on the streets, where many people lost their lives.
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