The first pictures Mr Monkey looked at were by He Chengyao, a Beijing-based performance artist. The flowers in Magnolia were photographed in the Summer Palace in Beijing, and obviously make a much more peaceful picture than 99 Needles in which she recreates an incident in her childhood when the Red Guard forcibly used acupuncture needles on her mother.
You can read about He Chengyao's work at the culturebase.net website (though the entry hasn't been updated since 2004).
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