Photographic records of China date back only to the 1970’s. Most historic photographs were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution as symbols of a bourgeois past that ought to be forgotten. After the Tiananmen protests of 1989, the Communist Party of China recognized the dissent among the youth and promulgated a new policy oh historical education called the Patriotic Education Movement. This partially resulted in anew interest in old photographs. Most of such photographs now lie outside China, in the Western world. Only recently consolidated efforts at collecting such photographic records have started bearing fruit. Read more.