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Foreword
This grand exhibition of life-size clay figures takes its setting from the fonher rent collection courtyard of Liu Wen-tsai, a landlord despot of Tayi County, Szechuan Province in southwestem China. It recreates a profound, vivid and truthful picture of the raging class struggle in old China's countryside.
Before liberation the people of Tayi suffered untold misery through the brutalities of the local despots and tbe oppressive taxes levied by the reactionary Kuomintang governement. Only three or four per cent of the local population were landlords, yet they occupied almost four-fifths of the arable land, mercilessly exploiting and oppressing the peasants and driving them to a life worse than that of beasts of burden. The Tayi of pre-liberation times was typical in semi-colonial and semi-feudal old China....
