A gift from India

印度來的禮物
Yindu lai de liwu
A gift from India
1954, October
Xin yishu chubanshe (新藝術出版社), Shanghai
77x53 cm.
BG E39/962

India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, sent elephants to zoos in Japan, China, the Soviet Union, the United States, Germany, Turkey, Iran, Canada and the Netherlands as "as envoys of peace and goodwill". In May 1953, an elephant named Asha / Asa (阿萨) was gifted to the children of China. She was put on display in the Beijing Zoo (then called Western Suburb Park).
This is a print from the fourth edition (August 1955).

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