The beginning of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai (1966)
Futan University in December, 1966 - a strong center of radical opinion.
Children jumping for Red Guard leaflets dropped from above.
The First Department Store, site of Workers’ Headquarters. (The former Sun Co. Department Store, at the corner of Nanking and Tibet Roads - KK.)
Children in People’s Square (formerly the racecourse), where many rallies were held.
Frames for wall posters at Chiaotung [Jiaotong] University.
Amusing mistranslation of the Chinese for the usual “Smash Kosygin’s dog head!” [“Crack Kosygin’s Dog gone skull!” [The writing in Russian calligraphy calls for “Разбить голову советских ревизионистов! Долой А. Н. Косыгина!” (Smash the heads of Soviet revisionists) - KK.]
Photos and captions are from Shanghai Journal: An Eyewitness Account of the Cultural Revolution (1988), by Neale Hunter.
A Google review: Originally published in 1969, Shanghai Journal presents the first full-length account, by a foreign observer, of the early days of the Cultural Revolution in Shanghai and the seat of power of the Gang of Four. Neale Hunter - one of the few Westerners living in Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution - bases his account both on first-hand experience as an English teacher with his wife at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute from 1965 to 1967 and on important primary sources, such as previously unavailable wall-posters.
The volume contains photographs taken by Hunter himself and a new introduction which reviews events that have occurred since the Cultural Revolution and Hunter’s own much-altered views of China. This reissue of Shanghai Journal appears at a time when not only Chinese and Western scholars have begun to re-examine the Cultural Revolution, but also at a time when wide general interest in understanding this crucial era in China's recent political history has grown