[…] All those things were destroyed overnight. It is a whole generation’s tragedy. For more than ten years, people were living under pressure. Our parents’ generation lived in times of strong political pressure. They tried to survive or to leave. They had no culture or enjoyment in their daily life.  Su Fei

Maybe it is not appropriate to make this example, but I feel like the period of the Cultural Revolution in China was similar to the Nazi period in Germany. At this time, all traditional Chinese culture and all foreign cultures were banned. Not limited to art, the Cultural Revolution had a huge impact on everyone. Everything was devastating, painful, and void. Prof. Jingren Lu