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4 unusual facts about Huang Xiang.


Democracy Wall

The first posting on the Wall was by a poet from Guizhou province named Huang Xiang.

In October 1978, Huang Xiang was feeling restless and one day was moved to take out of concealment the political poems he had written during the Mao Years.

Huang Xiang

As of 2012, over ninety of these portraits featuring subjects such as Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Vincent van Gogh, Martin Luther King and Gandhi have been completed.

In 1995 the Writers Publishing House in Beijing signed a contract to publish a series of his works.



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