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Designer unknown (佚名)
Mid 1970s
South Lake (Zhejiang province)
Nanhu (Zhejiang sheng) (南湖 - 浙江省)
Publisher unknown
Size: 13.5x22.5 cm.
Call number: PC-PC009-06 (Private collection)

Chinese papercut, from the series 'Sacred Places of the Revolution'.

South Lake (南湖; Nanhu) in Jiaxing (嘉兴), where the last session of the first congress of the Communist Party of China was held in 1921 on a boat. The first sessions had been held in Shanghai, but after the police found out about the meeting, the delegates decided to move to another location.