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Li Hua, China, Roar!, 1936

Li Cunsong, She Has Been Working the Long Night Shift, c. 1947

Liang Yongtai, Drinking, c. 1937-48

Zhang Xiyai, Stories of the City, c.1937-48

Huang Yongyu, Wipe Out Those Thugs, c. 1947

Cai Dizhi, Fleeing Guilin by the North Station, 1945

Zhao Zongzao, Eternal Springtime, 1960

Li Huanmin, Tibetan Women - The Golden Road, 1963

Dong Jiansheng, Using the Pen as a Weapon to Denounce (Counter-Revolutionary) 'Black' Culture, 1967

Dong Jiansheng, January 1976, Memorial to Zhou Enlai, 1978

Xu Bing, Bustling Village on the Water, 1980

Zhao Zongzao, Land of Peng Lai, 1982

These twelve works come from Woodcuts in Modern China, 1937-2008, the catalog of an exhibition at Picker Art Gallery at Colgate. A blurb about the show: "Chinese artists adapted the Western-style woodcut to create a pictorial language that resonated with the illiterate masses. They also created the beginnings of communist art in China and, in the most general sense, laid the foundation of modern Chinese art."

An illustrated article at Just Seeds goes into the story of how expressionist styles made it to China in the 30s.