JIN ZHILIN (b. 1928)
Beijing, China
SONG RUXIN (b. 1946)
Yan'an, China

"Peasant leads Intellectual Youth to Work" 1977
gouache on paper, 15 3/4" x 13 1/8"
Courtesy of Travis Allen

A local peasant leads a group of urban intellectual youth into the mountains to tend crops. Terraced mountainsides, as seen in the distance, are typical in mountainous northern Shaanxi. These urban youth are being rusticated through arduous agricultural work on steep hillsides.