Stock ID #164714 工农兵画报:总121期. [Gong nong bing hua bao: zong yi bai er shi yi qi]. [Chinese Cultural Revolution Periodical - Zhejiang Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Pictorial: Issue no. 121]. PEASANTS AND SOLDIERS PICTORIAL OFFICE ZHEJIANG WORKERS, 浙江工农兵画报社.

工农兵画报:总121期. [Gong nong bing hua bao: zong yi bai er shi yi qi].
[Chinese Cultural Revolution Periodical - Zhejiang Workers, Peasants and Soldiers Pictorial: Issue no. 121].

杭州.[Hangzhou]. 浙江工农兵画报社.[Zhejiang gong nong bing hua bao she]. 1970. Stock ID #164714

Issue no. 121 of the Chinese Cultural Revolution periodical published in November 1970. Illustrations throughout mainlyin black and white, 12 + [2]pp, original sewn wrappers, light browning along edges with some minor wear, otherwise good in wrappers. Text in Chinese. 18.6 x 26.3cm.

Upper cover shows the portrait of Wang Qingyun (1940-1969), a PLA pilot based in Hangzhou. During a normal flight operation on 5 November 1969, the engine of his jet stopped working mid-air. He had the opportunity to land in a nearby village but he chose to protect the lives of civilians, manually gliding his jet to a no-man's zone where he sacrificed his young life.

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