Education About Asia From the Masses to the Masses Documentary Film Explores Tension Between Art and Politics in Mao's China. Gregory Lewis

Political scientist Eric Hyer first captured the dramatic appeal of China's revolutionary history in his incisive documentary on Helen Foster Snow (2001). With From the Masses to the Masses, he delves substantially deeper into the cultural and political milieu of Mao's China both before and after 1949. Hyer takes as his subject Jin Zhilin, an artist born in 1928 in Hebei province who began his formal training during the Anti-Japanese War. Read Full Review