Children laugh and smile, young soldiers keep their backs straight under fire, and even Japanese POWs break into song, grateful for the mercy of their Communist captors. The artistry required to make such tableaux appear spontaneous and natural marked Sha Fei as a photographer and propagandist of extraordinary talent." Sha Fei was careful to preserve and catalog his negatives. He kept those of Lu Xun on himself, which were accidentally buried with him. Exhibitions of his work in the United States have been held at the Ohio State University (2009), and at the Fairbank Center, Harvard University (March–April 2016). In April 2016, the Fairbank Center held a conference, "The Photographer Who Shaped Modern China: Sha Fei and His World." Sha Fei's student Gu Di (顾棣), who followed him for seven years, also became a celebrated photographer and won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the China Photographers Association in 2002. Gu credits Sha Fei as the greatest influence in his life. Selected works Notes References Shana Brown, "Sha Fei, the Jin-Cha-Ji Pictorial and the Documentary Style of Chinese Wartime Photojournalism", in History in Images: Pictures and Public Space in Modern China (Berkeley: Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, 2012). Eliza Ho, Art, Documentary, and Propaganda in Wartime China: The Photography of Sha Fei (Columbus, OH: East Asian Studies Center, Ohio State University, 2009). 1912 births 1950 deaths Chinese photojournalists Artists from Guangzhou War photographers Chinese people of World War II People executed for murder People executed by China by firing squad Eighth Route Army personnel Executed people from Guangdong Chinese people convicted of murder People convicted of murder by the People's Republic of China