The Huang Xinbo 黄新波 papers (1940-1971) document the activities related to Chinese reporter, guerilla member of the Communist East River Column, and creator of the Association of Chinese Woodcuts, Huang Xinbo. It includes handwritten notebooks from the Cultural Revolution containing confessions, investigations, political learning records, and work duties, as well as photographs and censorship materials.

Huang Xinbo 黃新波 (1916-1980), reporter, guerilla fighter, and woodcut artist, was born in Guangdong Province, China. He attended the Shanghai-based League of Left-Wing Writers and League of Left-Wing Artists in 1933, and became a disciple of leading figure of modern Chinese literature, Lu Xun 鲁迅. Huang created the Association of Chinese Woodcuts in 1936. He worked as a reporter in Hong Kong between 1946 and 1949 before returning to Guangdong in 1949 to serve as a guerilla member of the Communist Party's East River Column 东江纵队. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), Huang was purged and forced to write confession materials, but he remained active creating a variety of woodcuts before his death.

2 manuscript boxes (0.6 Linear Feet)

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