On the tip of Orange Isle

橘子洲头
Juzizhou tou
On the tip of Orange Isle
1978, September
Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe (上海人民美术出版社)
77x53 cm.
BG E13/38

Orange Isle, an isle in the Xiang River near Changsha, Hunan Province, has been immortalized in a 1925 poem by Mao Zedong entitled "Changsha (to the tune of Qinyuanchun)". The English version of the poem can be found here; the Chinese version is here.

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