Women in Modern Chinese Prints
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Women have been relatively neglected in the visual record of China's revolutions. Historical documentation of activist women has been greatly enriched in recent years, but many figures of the 1911 Xinhai Revolution and early Republican period are only known from illustrated broadsheets and popular prints. Wartime and revolutionary heroines of the 1930s and '40s are more visible in prints made after 1949, especially martyrs, remembered and idealized in all graphic media.