National Humiliation

In the painting National Humiliation(国耻篇), a worker was standing in the middle with two hands tied behind his back. There is an exclamation point on the left and a question mark on the right in the dark background. These punctuation marks are in strong contrast, representing the miseries Chinese people had suffered in history of modern China. The crumbling surroundings and homeland after the earthquake reflect that history of modern China is not only a history of suffering and humiliation, but also a history of Chinese people from different ethnical groups, who kept exploring and struggling for the new life.