Title: Galloping Horses
Description: The author recalls growing up in Mao's China as the daughter of pioneering artist Xu Beihong, describing how her family and her father's legacy survived the turbulence of Mao's ever-changing policies, which dictated the direction of art and music from 1949 to 1976.
Subjects: Family, Children of artists, Biography, Music students, Painters, Art and state, History