Written by Oscar Holland, CNNTributes are flooding in for photographer Li Zhensheng, who documented the violent and tumultuous years of China's Cultural Revolution in the '60s and '70s. Li came to international prominence in the 1990s, when he began publishing harrowing photos from the Cultural Revolution in Western media outlets. And in the late 1990s, he sent some 30,000 archival pictures of the Cultural Revolution to the international photo agency, Contact Press Images, in brown paper envelopes. "The Cultural Revolution took place in China, but research into the Cultural Revolution flourishes in other countries and it has little impact on China. "My photos were taken in China and most of my readers should be in mainland China, whether or not they have experienced the Cultural Revolution."

Source: CNN June 25, 2020 04:18 UTC