Stages of History | Rent Collection Courtyard
The following text and images are taken from: Rent Collection Courtyard - Sculptures of Oppression and Revolt (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1968).
EXPLANATORY NOTES ON THE SIX PARTS OF THE CLAY SCULPTURE GROUP
Part VI. Revolt
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Sailing the seas depends on the helmsman, making revolution depends on Mao Tse-tung’s thought. —Rent Collection Courtyard (Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1968)
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Wherever there is exploitation and oppression, there is resistance and struggle. The landlords' persecution and exploitation arouse strong resistance and resolute struggle on the part of the peasants. The flames of revenge rise higher and higher. If they want to be free, to live, they must make revolution, ready to go through mountains of swords or seas of fire, dare to charge forward, to struggle. The broad masses of the peasants, under the brilliant leadership of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman Mao, take up arms and surge forward on the road of revolution, resolved to smash the man-eating system.