A historical documentary exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx is going on at the Art Gallery of Nanjing University Xianlin Campus. Let’s take a close look.
The exhibition features Marx’s classics, manuscripts, historical archives and research results. One of the biggest highlights is Marx’s original manuscript called Brüsseler Hefte, or the Brussels Notes, which is Marx’s fourth notebook.
Marx wrote on 49 pages of the 54-page manuscript, which is the only relatively complete Marx notebook collected in China.
The main part of the manuscript was written in 1845, which saw the formation of his historical materialism. The content includes Marx's excerpts from the works by economists such as Stoch, Pinto and Childe, and Marx's mathematics formula of surplus value and family account notes between 1861 and 1863.
Visitors to the exhibition can also see the restored scene of Marx's study and seat in the process of writing Das Capital in London.
A sculpture of Marx carved by famous sculptor Wu Weishan also stole the limelight.
The Manifesto of the Communist Party written jointly by Sun Xiaoyun and five other Jiangsu calligraphers was 22 meters long and 45 centimeters wide, containing 15,000 Chinese characters. It was the first time in China for Marxist classical works to be presented in the form of Chinese traditional calligraphy art.
Why Marx Was Right, a TV dialogue program, was also screened at the art gallery to invite the attentions of the visitors.
This exhibition is one of the series activities launched by Jiangsu Province to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Marx's birthday and will continue until June 3.
(Source: Jiangsu International Channel)
