Hung Liu, Chinese American artist who elevated the poor and forgotten, dies at 73

A lot of her topics have been drawn from images, a medium that carried intense which means for Ms. Liu. In the course of the early days of the Cultural Revolution, Mao’s brutal bid within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies to purify the Chinese language Communist Social gathering, Ms. Liu burned lots of her household’s photographs to remove traces of her father, who had served within the Nationalist Military, and different kin who, as students, have been regarded by the federal government as insufficiently working class.