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The statue and the old woman in the wheelchair
Pl. of Tian Han, Shanghai
This statue is dedicated to Tian Han (1898-1968), a 20th-century Chinese Communist playwright, poet, and lyricist of the Communist China's national anthem (originally intended as a movie interlude in the 1930s). Between 1949 and 1966 he headed the Communist Party-organized Dramatists' Association, however when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, he was denounced as a traitor and was persecuted to death, without his corpse remaining. The lyrics of the national anthem he made were banned from being sung, so much so that the national anthem of Communist China between 1966-1978 was a tune with no lyrics. It wasn't until 1979 that the Communist Party made him out to be a 'good man' again, and the lyrics of the song he made became the official national anthem, which has since led to the erection of a statue of him in this street garden.
The statue and the old woman in the wheelchair
Pl. of Tian Han, Shanghai
This statue is dedicated to Tian Han (1898-1968), a 20th-century Chinese Communist playwright, poet, and lyricist of the Communist China's national anthem (originally intended as a movie interlude in the 1930s). Between 1949 and 1966 he headed the Communist Party-organized Dramatists' Association, however when the Cultural Revolution broke out in 1966, he was denounced as a traitor and was persecuted to death, without his corpse remaining. The lyrics of the national anthem he made were banned from being sung, so much so that the national anthem of Communist China between 1966-1978 was a tune with no lyrics. It wasn't until 1979 that the Communist Party made him out to be a 'good man' again, and the lyrics of the song he made became the official national anthem, which has since led to the erection of a statue of him in this street garden.