A bronze statue of Sun Yat-sen, leader of China&rsquos Republican Revolution and hailed as the Father of the Nation in both the mainland and Taiwan, greets guests at the exhibit&rsquos entr...Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Scenes of life in 1930s and 1940s China depict the period&rsquos turbulence, with crowds scrambling for food and peasants dividing up furniture and fabrics confiscated from landlords. (Howe...Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Portraits of Mao Zedong were wildly popular among Red Guard students after the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution in 1966. This wood-block print was created by an art student just out of s...Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Block prints enjoyed particular favour during China&rsquos revolutionary times, partly for their ease of use in making posters Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Many artists were influenced by Lu Xun, left-wing writer and iconic figure in the history of China&rsquos block print art. Communist Party leaders and wartime heroes are among the popular s...Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Tang Daxi, a leading sculptor, captured the moment when a People&rsquos Liberation Army soldier tries to stop a startled horse from rushing into a moving train Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Beginning in the 1950s, oil paintings became increasingly prominent. This oil of a Red Army soldier was painted in the 1960s, after China&rsquos attempts to cut the cord with the Soviets ...Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Factory workers handling heavy machinery in this painting look more vigorous than some of the museum&rsquos visitors Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
Tang Daxi&rsquos Daughter of the Sea depicts a militiawoman stationed for coastal defence with one hand on an anchor and another on her firearm Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
This sculpture of Communist Party leaders Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai and Zhu De, dubbed Comrades in Arms, was created a year after the three died in 1976 ...Image by Qilai Shen for Forbes
