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Li Zhensheng’s photographic approach in Red-Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer’s Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution presents an unvarnished visual chronicle of daily life under Mao’s regime. His work captures the intense atmosphere of ideological fervor, the staged public performances, and the quiet moments of personal resilience during the Cultural Revolution.

The photographs reveal both the propaganda machinery and the lived reality behind the headlines, balancing scenes of militant enthusiasm with nuanced glimpses of fear, confusion, and endurance. Tensions between public spectacle and private experience are rendered through a documentary style that allows narratives to emerge through candid, often stark black-and-white images.

The book, published by Phaidon in 2003, spans 316 pages and offers a sustained photographic odyssey that challenges dominant historical interpretations through its visual testimony.